[lg policy] Fwd: [Edling] Book: English in Post-Revolutionary Iran: From Indigenization to Internationalization

[Harold Schiffman]

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 Title: English in Post-Revolutionary Iran: From Indigenization to
Internationalization



Author: Maryam Borjian



Format:Paperback - 208 pages



ISBN: 9781847699084



Published: 20 Feb 2013



Publisher: Multilingual Matters



URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?K=9781847699084


Summary

This book unravels the story of English, the language of "the enemies", in
post-revolutionary Iran. Situating English within the nation's broader
social, political, economic and historical contexts, the book explores the
politics, causes, and agents of the two diverging trends of
indigenization/localization and internationalization/Anglo-Americanization
in English education in Iran over the past three decades.



Reviews:


English in Post-Revolutionary Iran is a very thoughtful, provocative and
intelligent book on the inevitable tension between the globalization and
the domestication of the English language in post-revolutionary Iran, and
how the two forces, in fact, constitute two sides of the same hegemonic
coin. Bold and compelling in argument and richly eloquent in style, it
succeeds in raising profound questions about Iran in the 21st century: a
discursive trope, a predicament whose social and political order continues
to unfold in bewildering ways. Borjian helps us understand some of the
complex interrelations between language and political-economy, and the
transformative dialectics underlying the story of English in Iran since
1979.
Alamin Mazrui, Rutgers University, USA



Maryam Borjian's pathbreaking study of English language teaching in the
Islamic Republic of Iran carefully demonstrates the paradoxical growth of
English, the language of Khomeini's "Great Satan", alongside the increasing
political and diplomatic isolation of the Islamic Republic of Iran and
despite the revolution's initial impulse to indigenization. There can be no
clearer indication of the desire of the Iranian people and civil society to
belong to the global culture and community despite continued government
ambivalence in educational policy and its outright hostility to the
transfer of foreign ideas.
Said Amir Arjomand, State University of New York, USA



Author Biography:

Maryam Borjian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African,
Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures, and the
Coordinator of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Language Programs at
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her major research interest
lies in the politics, economics and sociology of language in society and
education in the contexts of colonialization, modernization, and
globalization.




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