Nice White Anglophones

Nice White Anglophones: Privilege, Power and Monolingualism is an innovative work exploring race, power and ideology via an extended fictional case study centring a monolingual white American family-"The Smiths".

Autorentext

Eric Louis Russell is Professor of French and Italian at UC Davis, USA.

Klappentext

Nice White Anglophones: Privilege, Power and Monolingualism is an innovative work exploring race, power and ideology via an extended fictional case study centring a monolingual white American family-"The Smiths".

Inhalt

Introduction; 1: A Fly on the Smith's Wall: Doing Language and Doing Culture; 2. What the Smiths Know, Do and Imagine: The Everyday Life of Nice White Anglophones; 3. On the Town with Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Power, Privilege and the Languacultural Work of Others; 4. Around the World with the Smiths: Banal Globalization, Languacultural Commodification and Anglophonism; 5. The Smiths Go to School: Learning Anglophone Hegemony; Conclusion: Languaculture, Freedom and Futurity; Glossary