[Linganth] New Book Announcement - The Future Conditional: Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China

[Eric Henry]

Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the publication of my new book by Cornell University Press.

Henry, Eric. 2021. The Future Conditional: Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501754913/the-future-conditional/

In The Future Conditional, Eric S. Henry brings twelve years of expertise and research to offer a nuanced discussion of the globalization of the English language and the widespread effects it has had on Shenyang, the capital and largest city of China's northeast Liaoning Province. Adopting an ethnographic and linguistic perspective, Henry considers the personal connotations that English has for Chinese people, beyond its role in the education system. Through research on how English is spoken, taught, and studied in China, Henry considers what the language itself means to Chinese speakers. How and why, he asks, has English become so deeply fascinating in contemporary China, simultaneously existing as a source of desire and anxiety? The answer, he suggests, is that English-speaking Chinese consider themselves distinctly separate from those who do not speak the language, the result of a cultural assumption that speaking English makes a person modern. Seeing language as a study that goes beyond the classroom, The Future Conditional assesses the emerging viewpoint that, for many citizens, speaking English in China has become a cultural need-and, more immediately, a realization of one's future.

Contents
Introduction: The English Modern
1. Dirty Talk: Hybrid Registers of Chinese and English
2. The Moral Economy of Walls: Recursive Enclosure and Linguistic Space
3. Better to Die Abroad Than to Live in China: Narratives of Life and Learning
4. Commodifying Language: The Business of English in Shenyang
5. On "Chinglish": Stigmatization, Laughter, and Nostalgia
6. Raciolinguistic Identities: The White Foreign Body of the Native English Speaker
Conclusion: Reflections on a Global Language


Dr. Eric Henry
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada



[cid:image004.png at 01D75138.DA164530]The Future Conditional
Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China
Cornell University Press: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501755163/the-future-conditional



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