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The English-vernacular divide : postcolonial language politics and practice Vaidehi Ramanathan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters Orient Longman ©2005.,Description: xii, 143 pages 22cmISBN:
  • 9788125030720
DDC classification:
  • 420.917
Contents:
Introduction : situating the vernacular in a divisive postcolonial landscape -- Divisive postcolonial ideologies, language policies, and social practices -- Divisive and divergent pedagogical tools for vernacular- and English-medium students -- The divisive politics of tracking -- Gulfs and bridges revisited : hybridity, nativization, and other loose ends -- The divisive politics of divergent pedagogical practices at college level.
Summary: 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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Introduction : situating the vernacular in a divisive postcolonial landscape --
Divisive postcolonial ideologies, language policies, and social practices --
Divisive and divergent pedagogical tools for vernacular- and English-medium students --
The divisive politics of tracking --
Gulfs and bridges revisited : hybridity, nativization, and other loose ends --
The divisive politics of divergent pedagogical practices at college level.


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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