[Linganth] Jessica Chandras on the CaMP blog today

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the blog, Jessica Sujata Chandras talks about her new book, Mother
Tongue Prestige: *The Sociolinguistics of Privilege in Urban Middle-Class
Education in India *with Priya Makarand Dabak.

campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: This book studies the intersection of language and social
privilege in education in India. Drawing on rich ethnographic detail and
primary data, it introduces a conversation of privilege, specifically
contemporary configurations of caste and socioeconomic class in India, to
the fields of South Asian studies and sociolinguistic educational studies.
The author examines how and why education at the pre-primary, secondary,
and higher education levels in India remains largely segregated by
socioeconomic class and caste through the lens of language. She advances
fields of study of multilingual education, language ideologies, and
complexities between language and identity to contribute to work on
language and privilege in education by providing a novel and contemporary
case from India. The book also critiques contemporary caste configurations
in India that uphold urban middle-class Brahmins as the socially privileged
purveyors of social and linguistic norms.

*Mother Tongue Prestige *parses out threads of motivation, perceptions of
education, and aspirations tied to language use and learning that shape
generations of students in an educational system preparing them for a
globalized workforce and urban, multilingual livelihoods in India and
abroad. It will be an indispensable resource for students and researchers
of education, language, sociology, sociology of education, linguistics,
sociolinguistics, and South Asian studies.
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