Futures for English Studies
Futures for English Studies
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英语研究的未来
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10.1007/978-1-137-43180-6_7
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2016
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Gupta S
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Gupta S
印度是第一个亚洲国家，也是世界上第一个将英语研究确立为高等教育（HE）学科的国家。从世纪中期开始，这方面的发展对其他地方的学科追求往往具有重要意义，特别是当英语语言和文学的研究试图适应不同的文化背景时，以及当后殖民条件被视为理解这种研究的过去和当前政治维度的支点时。同样，关于高等教育中英语研究的争论为印度独立后的社会发展提供了一个有用的指标。本章记录了一些这些发展和辩论，以评估在印度的英语研究的现状，并考虑其未来的前景。
India is the first Asian country, and amongst the first in the world, where English Studies was established as an academic discipline in higher education (HE). Developments therein from the mid-nineteenth century onwards have often been significant for disciplinary pursuits elsewhere, especially as the study of English language and literature tried to accommodate diverse cultural contexts, and insofar as the post-colonial condition came to be regarded as a fulcrum for understanding past and current political dimensions of such study. Equally, debates about English Studies in HE provide a useful index of social developments in India after independence. This chapter registers some of these developments and debates with a view to assessing the current condition of English Studies in India and considers its future prospects.