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| LC control number |
2008004243 |
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BIB MATCHES WORLDCAT |
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0822943468 |
| Qualifying information |
cloth (alk. paper) |
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9780822943464 |
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cloth (alk. paper) |
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082296001X |
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pbk. (alk. paper) |
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9780822960010 |
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pbk. (alk. paper) |
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(ATU)b11456450 |
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(OCoLC)182735992 |
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DLC |
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eng |
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PE2751 |
| Item number |
.P74 2008 |
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| Classification number |
427.94373 |
| Edition number |
22 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Prendergast, Catherine, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1968- |
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author. |
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1073766 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Buying into English : |
| Remainder of title |
language and investment in the new capitalist world / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Catherine Prendergast. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Pittsburgh : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
University of Pittsburgh Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
[2008] |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
©2008 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
ix, 180 pages : |
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illustrations ; |
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24 cm. |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
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unmediated |
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volume |
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rdacarrier |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introduction : the first language of capitalism -- Lingua non grata : English during communism -- Other worlds in other words -- "We live and learn" -- Real life in English -- The golden cage. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"English has become the language of choice for global economic, political, and cultural exchange. Many developing countries (and, notably, many former Soviet bloc countries) have little choice but to "buy into English" as a path to ideological and material betterment. As Catherine Prendergast reveals, however, investing in English has not always been easy and has often disappointed expectations. 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. To chart this evolution, she examines globalization's past as well as its present. Through personal histories, she offers a rare glance at how the communist regime was forced to reckon with English's growing global stature. Prendergast contrasts these accounts with chronicles of adept multitaskers learning English during Slovakia's exhausting fast-track incorporation into the European Union and Western capitalism. She reveals how the use of English in everyday life has become suffused with the terms of the knowledge and information economy, where language is manipulated for power and profit. Buying into English presents a fascinating study of how language lives in the imagination as much as in the world, 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."--Publisher description. |
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Machine converted from AACR2 source record. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
English language |
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Slovakia |
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741778 |
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English language |
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Economic aspects |
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Slovakia |
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730436 |
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Intercultural communication |
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Slovakia |
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741791 |
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English language |
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Globalization |
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337721 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Language and culture |
| Geographic subdivision |
Slovakia |
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741805 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture. |
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238836 |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Materials specified |
Contributor biographical information |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2008004243-b.html">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2008004243-b.html</a> |
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