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The future conditional : building an English-speaking society in northeast China by Eric S. Henry is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The future conditional : building an English-speaking society in northeast China about?
This book offers 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, the book 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, the book considers what the language itself means to Chinese speakers. How and why, the book asks, has English become so deeply fascinating in contemporary China, simultaneously existing as a source of desire and anxiety? The answer suggested 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 book 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.
Who reads The future conditional : building an English-speaking society in northeast China?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Eric S. Henry
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501754913
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Anthropology, Language Learning
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