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English Linguistic Imperialism from Below : Moral Aspiration and Social Mobility / Leya Mathew.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mathew, Leya, author.
- Series:
- Critical language and literacy studies ; Volume 28.
- Critical language and literacy studies ; Volume 28
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Political aspects.
- Political aspects.
- English language--Study and teaching.
- English language.
- English language--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Multilingual Matters, 2022.
- Summary:
- This book offers a sociolinguistic analysis of 'low-fee private schooling'. It demonstrates that political economic transitions experienced as radical social mobility have led to intense parental desire for (low-fee) private English schooling. Rather than English schooling leading to social mobility, social mobility necessitates English schooling.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Series Editors’ Preface
- 1 Moral Aspiration
- 2 Development and its Afterlives
- 3 Temporal Migrations
- 4 Social Lives of Rote
- 5 Scripted Lives of Communication
- 6 Obsessive Hope
- 7 Mandated Resistance
- 8 Rote to Interaction
- 9 Conclusion: Linguistic Imperialism from Below
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (De Gruyter, viewed November 16, 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-78892-915-2
- OCLC:
- 1322125193
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