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Titre : Buying into english : Language and investment in the new capitalist world Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Catherine Prendergast, Auteur Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press Année de publication : 2008 Importance : 180p. Présentation : couv.ill. Format : 25cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-8229-6001-0 Note générale : Index pp.177-180
Bibliogr. pp.171-176Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : English Language Slovakia Interculrural communication Language and cultural Index. décimale : 427 Variantes historiques et géographiques, variantes locales Résumé : 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.
Buying into english : Language and investment in the new capitalist world [texte imprimé] / Catherine Prendergast, Auteur . - [S.l.] : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008 . - 180p. : couv.ill. ; 25cm.
ISBN : 978-0-8229-6001-0
Index pp.177-180
Bibliogr. pp.171-176
Langues : Anglais (eng)
Mots-clés : English Language Slovakia Interculrural communication Language and cultural Index. décimale : 427 Variantes historiques et géographiques, variantes locales Résumé : 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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Cote Section Localisation Code-barres Disponibilité Numero_inventaire 427 PRL Linguistique et langues Anglaises Biblio-FLSHO L00 Disponible L00
Titre : Buying into english : Language and investment in the new capitalist world Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Catherine Prendergast, Auteur Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press Année de publication : 2008 Importance : 180p. Présentation : couv.ill. Format : 25cm Note générale : Index pp.177-180
Bibliogr. pp.171-176Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : English Language Slovakia Interculrural communication Language and cultural Index. décimale : 427 Variantes historiques et géographiques, variantes locales Résumé : 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.
Buying into english : Language and investment in the new capitalist world [texte imprimé] / Catherine Prendergast, Auteur . - [S.l.] : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008 . - 180p. : couv.ill. ; 25cm.
Index pp.177-180
Bibliogr. pp.171-176
Langues : Anglais (eng)
Mots-clés : English Language Slovakia Interculrural communication Language and cultural Index. décimale : 427 Variantes historiques et géographiques, variantes locales Résumé : 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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