The English-Vernacular Divide: Postcolonial Language Politics and Practice - Couverture souple

Ramanathan, Vaidehi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1853597694 ISBN 13 : 9781853597695

Editeur : Multilingual Matters, 2005

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Vaidehi Ramanathan is Professor of Applied Sociolinguistics at University of California, Davis, USA. Her previous publications include Language Policies and (Dis)Citizenship: Rights, Access, Pedagogies (Multilingual Matters, 2013) and Bodies and Language: Health, Ailments, Disabilities (Multilingual Matters, 2009).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Multilingual Matters
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1853597694
• ISBN 13: 9781853597695
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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