TheEnglish-Vernacular Divide: Postcolonial Language Politics and Practice

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TheEnglish-Vernacular Divide: Postcolonial Language Politics and Practice By Vaidehi Ramanathan
2005 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 1853597716 | PDF | 1 MB


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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