![]() | Buying into English: Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World Subjects: English language -- Slovakia; English language -- Economic aspects -- Slovakia; Intercultural communication -- Slovakia; English language -- Globalization; Language and culture -- Slovakia; Many developing countries have little choice but to "buy into English" as a path to ideological and material betterment. 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. |
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