02512nam 22005413 450 991100917880332120230629224211.09781788929165(electronic bk.)9781788929134(MiAaPQ)EBC7009589(Au-PeEL)EBL7009589(CKB)23424748900041EBL7009589(AU-PeEL)EBL7009589(BIP)082383890(Exl-AI)7009589(OCoLC)1322125193(Perlego)3289324(EXLCZ)992342474890004120220609d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEnglish Linguistic Imperialism from Below Moral Aspiration and Social Mobility1st ed.Bristol :Multilingual Matters,2022.©2022.1 online resource (197 pages)Critical Language and Literacy Studies ;v.28Description based upon print version of record.Print version: Mathew, Leya English Linguistic Imperialism from Below Bristol : Multilingual Matters,c2022 9781788929134 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 -- IndexGenerated by AI.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.Critical Language and Literacy StudiesLanguage policyIndiaGenerated by AISocial mobilityIndiaGenerated by AILanguage policySocial mobility427.954Mathew Leya1827732MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9911009178803321English Linguistic Imperialism from Below4395867UNINA