Government social mobility concerns over literacy…
Languages travel, carried by people on the move, borne by artifacts and embedded in networks of contact. Semiotic mobility has increasingly become a crucial perspective from which to understand and theorize language. However, the intense interest enjoyed by issues of mobility and language is not a recent phenomenon, and can be traced directly or indirectly to a concern with mobility. Consequently, the government has announced a funding commitment of twenty million pounds, in support of English language classes, so as to foster community integration, and social mobility. Therefore,