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TheEnglish-Vernacular Divide: Postcolonial Language Politics and Practice

By Vaidehi Ramanathan

Book information

Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Year
2005
ISBN
9781853597718
DOI
10.21832/9781853597718
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
501 kB (513076 bytes)
Pages
160\155
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 11:53:00

Description

This book explores the role of English in postcolonial communities such as India. It focuses on some local ways in which the language falls along the lines of a class-based divide. It argues that issues of inequality, subordination and unequal value revolve around the general positioning of English in relation to vernacular languages.

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