32.3604, Books: In Pursuit of English: Park

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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 21:36:33
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: In Pursuit of English: Park

 


Title: In Pursuit of English 
Subtitle: Language and Subjectivity in Neoliberal South Korea 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/in-pursuit-of-english-9780190855734?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Joseph Sung-Yul Park

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190855734 Pages: 202 Price: U.S. $ 125
Paperback: ISBN:  9780190855741 Pages: 202 Price: U.S. $ 39.95


Abstract:

In Pursuit of English traces how the English language became an object of
heated pursuit amid South Korea's rapid neoliberalization, creating the
so-called "English fever" of the 1990s and 2000s. Joseph Sung-Yul Park
demonstrates that English gained prominence not because of the language's
supposed economic value, but because of the anxieties, insecurities, and moral
desire instilled by neoliberal Korean society. Park shows how English came to
be seen as an index of an ideal neoliberal subject who willingly engages in
constant self-management and self-development in response to the changing
conditions of the global economy.

Bringing together ethnographically-oriented perspectives on subjectivity,
critical analysis of conditions of contemporary capitalism, theories of
neoliberal governmentality, and sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological
frameworks of metapragmatic analysis, In Pursuit of English develops an
innovative new direction for research at the intersection language and
political economy, challenging researchers to consider subjectivity as the key
for understanding the place of language in neoliberalism.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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