Language, Literacy, and Social Change in Mongolia : Traditionalist, Socialist, and Post-Socialist Identities.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. The Pastoral Home School: Rural, Vernacular, and Grassroots Literacies in Early Socialist Mongolia -- Chapter Three. How to Think Like a Socialist: Official Representations of Literacy in Socialist Mongolia -- Chapter Four. Literacy under Authority: The Young Pioneers and the Cultural Campaigns -- Chapter Five. Sponsorship and the Official Center of Post-Socialist Literacy -- Chapter Six. Post-Socialist English and National Language Ideologies -- Chapter Seven. Urban Linguistic Landscapes and Post-Socialist Public Audiences -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

This book argues that literacy functions as a means of tracking social change in modern Mongolia. Its leaders have used literacy to promote new ways of living and socialist identities. In post-socialist Mongolia, literacy expresses the anxieties that Mongolians feel as they navigate globalism and express conflicting identities.

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