The English-Vernacular Divide: Postcolonial Language Politics and Practice (Bilingual Education and Biligualism)

✍ Scribed by Vaidehi Ramanathan

Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 155
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book offers a critical exploration of the role of English in postcolonial communities such as India. Specifically, it focuses on some local ways in which the language 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. The author was raised and schooled in the Indian educational system

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