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English Linguistic Imperialism from Below : Moral Aspiration and Social Mobility / Leya Mathew.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Language and Literacy Studies ; 28Publisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781788929158
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.442/21054 23/eng/20220314
LOC classification:
  • PE3502.I6 M38 2022
  • PE3502.I6 M38 2022
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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.

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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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