Buying into English

Buying into English
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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9780822971184
ISBN-13 : 0822971186
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Book Synopsis Buying into English by : Catherine Prendergast

Download or read book Buying into English written by Catherine Prendergast and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2008-05-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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