Unequal discursivities and the symbolic capital of Malaysian Indian scholarship

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4887914
AutoresPillai (0000-0002-7555-5698, National University of Malaysia , Bangi , Malaysia, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen2021
Número267-268
Páginas241-251
Fecha de publicación2021-03-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ijsl-2020-0072
OpenAlexW3137336527
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas8

This paper engages with the aspects of discursive hegemony in terms of both Metropolitan and disciplinary position and privilege, using the sociology of the language that has been produced on Malaysian Indian identity as my point of reference. It contends that these observations and articulations are able to rise to the surface more easily when they are securely located within disciplinary domains often related to determinacy. I argue that viewed as a whole, it becomes apparent that these discourses are coloured by the subjective desire of the accumulation of knowledge on the subject matters of their writings. As such, they are as much stories that are told of the Malaysian Indian community as those found in literary narratives and can ultimately lead to unequal discursivities

Aesthetics · Art · Discipline · Hegemony · Literature · Media studies · Metropolitan area · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia