商品簡介
Born and raised in India, Ramanathan (linguistics, U. of California, Davis) was educated in the English track of the Indian educational system. In this study, the author examines the role of English in postcolonial societies, as evidenced by Indian/South-Asian English, particularly in some local ways that it falls along the lines of a class-based divide. The text explores how language policies become social practices; how they are interpreted and resisted by teachers and institutions; how they connect to larger political ideologies; how they reinforce existing social stratifications of class, caste, ethnicity, and gender; and how issues of inequality, subordination, and unequal value are linked to the positioning of English in relation to vernacular languages. Distributed in the U.S. by UTP Distribution. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Vaidehi Ramanathan is an Associate Professor in the Linguistics department at the University of California, Davis She was raised and schooled in the educational system she writes about and she has been involved in issues related vernacular and English language teaching for several years in a variety of contexts, including teacher-education. Her publications include: The Politics of TESOL education (RoutledgeFalmer) and Alzheimer's discourse: some sociolinguistic dimensions (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).
