The English-vernacular divide : postcolonial language politics and practice / Vaidehi Ramanathan.
Material type: TextPublisher: Clevedon, England ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xii, 143 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1853597708
- 9781853597701
- 420.9171241 22
- PE2751 .R36 2004
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 420.9171241 RAM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A416110B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : situating the vernacular in a divisive postcolonial landscape -- Divisive post/colonial ideologies, language policies, and social practices -- Divisive and divergent pedagogical tools for vernacular- and english-medium students -- The divisive politics of divergent pedagogical practices -- The divisive politics of tracking -- Gulfs and bridges revisited : hybridization, nativization, and other loose ends -- --
1. Introduction : situating the vernacular in a divisive postcolonial landscape -- 2. Divisive postcolonial ideologies, language policies and social practices -- 3. Divisive and divergent pedagogical tools for vernacular-and English-medium students -- 4. The divisive politics of divergent pedagogical practices -- 5. The divisive politics of tracking -- 6. Gulfs and bridges revisited : hybridization, nativization and other loose ends.
"This book offers a critical exploration of the role of English in postcolonial societies such as India, specifically focusing on some local ways in which it 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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