英语与 "个性发展":印度社会流动的超个性化和去政治化

IF 1.1 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
K. Highet
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在过去二十年里,印度的英语学习经历了明显而微妙的转变。在辅导中心大量增加以满足广泛需求的同时,也出现了一种默契,即仅仅会说英语已不足以在社会上立足:学生还必须参与一系列自我工作,或 "个性发展"。在本文中,我利用了德里一个非政府组织的人种学数据,该组织旨在通过为弱势青年提供英语和个性发展培训来减轻贫困。我展示了人格发展的论述是如何(重新)产生和并列对自我的特殊理解的,这些理解是如何将社会流动项目超个人化和非政治化的。本文将这些论述置于印度不断变化的政治经济格局中,展示了这些 "个性发展 "的概念是如何从长期存在和新近发展的殖民、种姓和阶级历史中产生,又是如何掩盖这些历史的,以及它们是如何产生非政治化的主体性的。
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English and ‘personality development’: the hyper-individualization and de-politicization of social mobility in India
In the last two decades, English learning in India has undergone noticeable and subtle transformations. Alongside the massive increase in coaching centres to cater for widespread demand, there has also emerged a tacit understanding that it is no longer enough to speak English to be socially mobile: students must also engage in a range of self-work, or ‘personality development’. In this article, I draw on ethnographic data from an NGO in Delhi that seeks to alleviate poverty through English and personality development training for disadvantaged youth. I show how discourses of personality development (re)produce and juxtapose particular understandings of the self that work to hyper-individualize and depoliticize the project of social mobility. Situating these discourses within the context of shifting political economic configurations in India, this paper demonstrates how these notions of ‘personality development’ both emerge from and obscure long-standing and newly-developing colonial, caste and class histories, and how they work to produce depoliticised subjectivities.
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International Journal of the Sociology of Language
International Journal of the Sociology of Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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期刊介绍: The International Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL) is dedicated to the development of the sociology of language as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches – theoretical and empirical – supplement and complement each other, contributing thereby to the growth of language-related knowledge, applications, values and sensitivities. Five of the journal''s annual issues are topically focused, all of the articles in such issues being commissioned in advance, after acceptance of proposals. One annual issue is reserved for single articles on the sociology of language. Selected issues throughout the year also feature a contribution on small languages and small language communities.
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