Mother Tongue Prestige: The Sociolinguistics of Privilege in Urban Middle-Class Education in India

Author:   Jessica Sujata Chandras
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032404554


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   01 September 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Mother Tongue Prestige: The Sociolinguistics of Privilege in Urban Middle-Class Education in India


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This book studies the intersection of language and social privilege in education in India. Drawing on rich ethnographic detail and primary data, it introduces a conversation of privilege, specifically contemporary configurations of caste and socioeconomic class in India, to the fields of South Asian studies and sociolinguistic educational studies. The author examines how and why education at the pre-primary, secondary, and higher education levels in India remains largely segregated by socioeconomic class and caste through the lens of language. She advances fields of study of multilingual education, language ideologies, and complexities between language and identity to contribute to work on language and privilege in education by providing a novel and contemporary case from India. The book also critiques contemporary caste configurations in India that uphold urban middle-class Brahmins as the socially privileged purveyors of social and linguistic norms. Mother Tongue Prestige parses out threads of motivation, perceptions of education, and aspirations tied to language use and learning that shape generations of students in an educational system preparing them for a globalized workforce and urban, multilingual livelihoods in India and abroad. It will be an indispensable resource for students and researchers of education, language, sociology, sociology of education, linguistics, sociolinguistics, and South Asian studies.

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Author:   Jessica Sujata Chandras
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Weight:   0.503kg
ISBN:  

9781032404554


ISBN 10:   1032404558
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   01 September 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Jessica Sujata Chandras is a linguistic anthropologist trained in qualitative, ethnographic, and sociolinguistic research methods. Currently, she holds an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at the University of North Florida. Her PhD is in Anthropology from the George Washington University, in Washington, DC, and was awarded in 2019. Her ongoing research in India examines values attached to language and practices of multilingual language socialization pertaining to education through a lens of power. She explores a political economy of language with a focus on intersections of language and socioeconomic class, caste, and politics of language revitalization movements. In her projects, she examines configurations of identity categories, such as caste and class, with language negotiations in access to education. Previously, she has also worked and researched in multilingual communities on impacts of indigenous language on identity and community formation in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the Basque Country.

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