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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2022 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Mathew, Leya,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies ; 28
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781788929158; 9783110767001; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993950; 9783110994186; 9783110767124
• DOI: 10.21832/9781788929158
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Leya Mathew.

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.