TY - BOOK AU - Mathew,Leya TI - English Linguistic Imperialism from Below: Moral Aspiration and Social Mobility T2 - Critical Language and Literacy Studies SN - 9781788929158 AV - PE3502.I6 M38 2022 U1 - 306.442/21054 23/eng/20220314 PY - 2022///] CY - Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit : PB - Multilingual Matters, KW - English language KW - Political aspects KW - India KW - Social aspects KW - Study and teaching KW - Foreign speakers KW - Imperialism KW - Educational strategies & policy KW - LANGUAGE TEACHING & LEARNING (OTHER THAN ELT) KW - EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781788929158 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781788929158 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781788929158/original ER -