Title
- Bilingual Education And Bilingualism ; 49
Attribution
Vaidehi RamanathanPublication Details
BookMultilingual Matters2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PE2751 .R36 2005 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Description
This book offers a critical exploration of the role of English in postcolonial communities such as India. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- English language — Commonwealth countries
- English language — Political aspects — Commonwealth countries
- English language — Social aspects — Commonwealth countries
- English language — Variation — Commonwealth countries
- Languages in contact — Commonwealth countries
- Postcolonialism — Commonwealth countries
- Commonwealth countries — Languages
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Notes
- "This book offers a critical exploration of the role of English in postcolonial societies such as India, specifically focusing on some local ways in which it falls along the lines of a class-based divide (with ancillary ones of gender and caste as well). The book argues that issues of inequality, subordination and unequal value seem to revolve directly around the general positioning of English in relation to vernacular languages."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- 1. Introduction : situating the vernacular in a divisive postcolonial landscape
- 2. Divisive postcolonial ideologies, language policies and social practices
- 3. Divisive and divergent pedagogical tools for vernacular- and English-medium students
- 4. The divisive politics of divergent pedagogical practices
- 5. The divisive politics of tracking
- 6. Gulfs and bridges revisited : hybridization, nativization and other loose ends
ISBN
- 1853597694
- 1853597708
- 1853597716
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