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In South Korea, English is a language of utmost importance, sought with an unprecedented zeal as an indispensable commodity in education, business, popular culture, and national policy. This book investigates how the status of English as a hegemonic language in South Korea is constructed through the mediation of language ideologies in local discourse. Adopting the framework of language ideology and its current developments, it is argued that English in Korean society is a subject of deep-rooted ambiguities, with multiple and sometimes conflicting ideologies coexisting within a...

The global spread of English both reproduces and reinforces oppressive structures of inequality. But such structures can no longer be seen as imposed from an imperial center, as English is now actively adopted and appropriated in local contexts around the world. This book argues that such conditions call for a new critique of global English, one that is sensitive to both the political economic conditions of globalization and speakers' local practices.

Linking Bourdieu's theory of the linguistic market and his practice-based perspective with recent advances in...

The global spread of English both reproduces and reinforces oppressive structures of inequality. But such structures can no longer be seen as imposed from an imperial center, as English is now actively adopted and appropriated in local contexts around the world. This book argues that such conditions call for a new critique of global English, one that is sensitive to both the political economic conditions of globalization and speakers local practices.

Linking Bourdieu s theory of the linguistic market and his practice-based perspective with recent advances in...

In the 1980s the countries of Asia-Pacific first experienced -economic miracles.- After a short period of stagnation and retrenchment in the 1990s, economic prosperity is again in full swing from the beginning of the twenty-first century. The major driving force behind this is the rapidly growing economic and technical cooperation among countries--China, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asian countries--in the region, attributable to liberalization of trade and Free Trade Agreements efforts which are expected to lead to the establishment of a common market like the EU. This book is the...