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

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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2022 Part 2
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of 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

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