English Linguistic Imperialism from Below

Moral Aspiration and Social Mobility

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.

Juli 2022, Critical Language and Literacy Studies, Englisch
Ingram Publishers Services
978-1-78892-913-4

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