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The English-vernacular divide : postcolonial language politics and practice /
This book offers a critical exploration of the role of English in postcolonial communities such as India. Specifically, it focuses on some local ways in which the language falls along the lines of a class-based divide (with ancillary ones of gender and caste as well). The book argues that issues of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Clevedon ; Buffalo :
Multilingual Matters,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Bilingual education and bilingualism ;
49. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book offers a critical exploration of the role of English in postcolonial communities such as India. Specifically, it focuses on some local ways in which the language 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. The author was raised and schooled in the Indian educational system. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 143 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-137) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1853597716 9781853597718 9781853597701 1853597708 9781853597695 1853597694 |