Desire, pride and profit: Affective economies of English in India

IF 1.3 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-05-18 DOI:10.1016/j.langcom.2024.04.003

Katy Highet

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Abstract

Scholarship on neoliberalism has shown how employability discourses compel students to invest in English. What remains underexplored is the role of affect in these processes, and how it works to anchor these discourses deep within people’s subjectivities. Drawing on ethnographic data from an English-teaching NGO in Delhi, I explore the affective economy of English in India in order to demonstrate how and why English becomes desirable, for whom, and with what consequences. In doing so, I map the webs of complex logics and actors that not only discursively (re)produce English as a thing to be desired, but also draw boundaries around who can and should desire it.

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欲望、自豪和利益：印度英语的情感经济

有关新自由主义的研究表明，就业能力的论述如何迫使学生对英语进行投资。但尚未充分探讨的是情感在这些过程中的作用，以及情感是如何将这些话语深深扎根于人们的主观意识之中的。根据德里一个英语教学非政府组织的人种学数据，我探讨了印度英语的情感经济，以说明英语如何以及为何变得可取，对谁而言以及产生了什么后果。在此过程中，我绘制了复杂的逻辑和参与者网络，这些逻辑和参与者不仅在话语上（重新）将英语作为一种渴望的事物，而且还围绕谁可以和应该渴望英语划定了界限。

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Language & Communication Multiple-

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