In Pursuit of English

In Pursuit of English
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 201
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ISBN-10 : 9780190855765
ISBN-13 : 0190855762
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Download or read book In Pursuit of English written by Joseph Sung-Yul Park and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pursuit of English traces how the English language became an object of heated pursuit amid South Korea's rapid neoliberalization, creating the so-called "English fever" of the 1990s and 2000s. Joseph Sung-Yul Park demonstrates that English gained prominence not because of the language's supposed economic value, but because of the anxieties, insecurities, and moral desire instilled by neoliberal Korean society. Park shows how English came to be seen as an index of an ideal neoliberal subject who willingly engages in constant self-management and self-development in response to the changing conditions of the global economy. Bringing together ethnographically-oriented perspectives on subjectivity, critical analysis of conditions of contemporary capitalism, theories of neoliberal governmentality, and sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological frameworks of metapragmatic analysis, In Pursuit of English develops an innovative new direction for research at the intersection language and political economy, challenging researchers to consider subjectivity as the key for understanding the place of language in neoliberalism.


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