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Record Nr.

UNINA9911009178803321

Autore

Mathew Leya

Titolo

English Linguistic Imperialism from Below : Moral Aspiration and Social Mobility

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol : , : Multilingual Matters, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

9781788929165

9781788929134

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 pages)

Collana

Critical Language and Literacy Studies ; ; v.28

Disciplina

427.954

Soggetti

Language policy - India

Social mobility - India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

The book shows how English has been newly constituted as a dominant language in post-market reform India. Political economic transitions experienced as radical social mobility fuelled intense non-elite desire for English schooling. Rather than English schooling leading to social mobility, new experiences of mobility necessitated English schooling.