Buying into English: Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World by Catherine Jean Prendergast

Buying into English: Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World

Catherine Jean Prendergast

192 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

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Many developing countries have little choice but to “buy into English” as a path to ideological and material betterment.Based on extensive fieldwork in Slovakia, Prendergast assembles a rich ethnographic study that records the thoughts, aspiration...

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