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English Linguistic Imperialism from Below
2022
Overview
Imperialism may be over, but the political, economic and
cultural subjugation of social life through English has only
intensified. This book demonstrates how English has been newly
constituted as a dominant language in post-market reform India
through the fervent aspirations of non-elites and the zealous
reforms of English Language Teaching experts. The most recent
spread of English in India has been through low-fee private
schools, which are perceived as dubious yet efficient. The book is
an ethnography of mothering at one such low-fee private school and
its neighboring state-funded school. It demonstrates that political
economic transitions, experienced as radical social mobility,
fuelled intense desire for English schooling. Rather than English
schooling leading to social mobility, new experiences of mobility
necessitated English schooling. At the same time, experts have
responded to the unanticipated spread of English by transforming it
from a second language to a first language, and earlier hierarchies
have been produced anew as access to English democratized.
Publisher
Channel View Publications,Multilingual Matters
Subject
ISBN
9781788929134, 1788929136, 9781788929141, 1788929144, 1788929160, 9781788929165
