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In pursuit of english : language and subjectivity in Neoliberal South Korea / Joseph Sung-Yul Park.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Park, Joseph Sung-Yul, author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies sociolinguistic series.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies sociolinguistic series
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Social aspects--Korea (South).
- English language.
- English language--Political aspects--Korea (South).
- Language policy--Korea (South).
- Language policy.
- Korea (South).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Tracing how anxieties, insecurities, and moral desire about English instilled through South Korea's neoliberal transformation led to the country's heated pursuit of English in the 1990s and 2000s, this book presents subjectivity as a theoretical and analytical perspective for studying the intersection of language and political economy.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Language and subjectivity in Neoliberalism
- English and Neoliberalism in South Korea
- Language as pure potential : crafting a desire for English
- Language learning as technology of the self : the moral grounding of English
- The biopolitics of language learning : youth, English, and anxiety
- Deferring to the other : English and linguistic insecurity
- Becoming precarious subjects : the unfulfilled promise of English
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-085576-2
- 0-19-085577-0
- 0-19-085575-4
- OCLC:
- 1263027542
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