Band 163
Buying into English Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World
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Composition, Literacy, and Culture
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Sprache:Englisch
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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
31.05.2008
Verlag
Penguin Random House South AfricaSeitenzahl
(Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
647 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780822971184
Many developing countries have little choice but to "buy into English" as a path to ideological and material betterment. Based on extensive fieldwork in Slovakia, Prendergast assembles a rich ethnographic study that records the thoughts, aspirations, and concerns of Slovak nationals, language instructors, journalists, and textbook authors who contend with the increasing importance of English to their rapidly evolving world. She reveals how the use of English in everyday life has becomes suffused with the terms of the knowledge and information economy, where language is manipulated for power and profit. Buying into English presents an astute analysis of the factors that have made English so prominent and yet so elusive, and a deconstruction of the myth of guaranteed viability for new states and economies through English.
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