Buying Into English - Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World

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.

Info autore

Catherine Prendergast is professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning after Brown v. Board of Education.

Riassunto

English has become the language of choice for global economic, political, and cultural exchange. This book presents a study of how language lives in the imagination as much as in the world and an astute analysis of the factors that have made English so prominent and yet so elusive.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Catherine Prendergast
• Editore: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 20.05.2008
• EAN: 9780822960010
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6001-0
• Pagine: 192
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 224 mm x 13 mm
• Peso: 272 g
• Serie: Pittsburgh Series in Compositi; Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture; Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture; Composition, Literacy, and Cul; Composition, Literacy, and Culture; Pittsburgh Series in Compositi
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Economia internazionale; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie