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Buying into English: Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World: Composition, Literacy, and Culture, cartea 31

Autor Catherine Prendergast
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 mai 2008
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822960010
ISBN-10: 082296001X
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: University of Pittsburgh Press
Colecția University of Pittsburgh Press
Seria Composition, Literacy, and Culture


Recenzii

“Raising serious sociolinguistic and social issues, Prendergast’s book reads like an inspiring fiction.”
—World Englishes

“Full of stories, large and small, about the cheapening of English in a country where people had once fetishized it, going to great lengths to learn it for themselves and their children under a regime that placed as many obstacles as possible in their path.”
—The Nation

Notă biografică

Catherine Prendergast is professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning after Brown v. Board of Education.

Descriere

English has become the language of choice for global economic, political, and cultural exchange. Many developing countries (and, notably, many former Soviet bloc countries) have little choice but to “buy into English” as a path to ideological and material betterment. As Catherine Prendergast reveals, however, investing in English has not always been easy and has often disappointed expectations.