Language Ideology with respect to Identity Politics in India
| Vol-4 | Issue-01 | January 2019 | Published Online: 20 January 2019 PDF ( 257 KB ) | ||
| Author(s) | ||
| Manjesh Kumar 1 | ||
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1CL, SLLsCS ,JNU |
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| Abstract | ||
There have been significant ignorance or resistance in terms of examining language ideology as there is no restriction to the level of investigation. The two parallel fundamentals operating here are Politics of an individual or a group identity and Identity Politics. The former part of the paper deals with the possible distinction between the neutral and critical grounds of the world. However, the broader notion is how the will to power shapes the identity. The constitutions of identity have political implications that binds us in a larger drive. The high political activism is based on identifying the activity of a group that have been oppressed or marginalized. Subsequently, The latter part proceeds with the examination of language with further analysis with respect to ethnography of speaking, language contact, competition and politics, doctrines of correctness, standardization and purism, language policy and the historical studies and literacy. Going by the Indian thinking Indus Civilization has always focused on the question of „Who we are?‟ and „What the „self‟ means‟? It is very self-centric, not geocentric, not anthropologist, not even theologist? The paper is an effort towards identifying the respective constructions and design. This paper primarily deals with the identity politics which not only involves the political implications but also various parts of religion, caste, minorities and gender. There is also a lot of discussion that revolves around the language and the language varieties that are directly related to language or linguistic ideology often in seeming mutual unawareness. The other point of contact can be between language and language varieties. |
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| Keywords | ||
| Ideology, Politics, Language, Identity Politics | ||
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