Language as power apparatus
Observations on English and cultural policy in nineteenth-century India
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 2268396 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Syed A Rahim (0000-0003-1167-9971, East–West Center, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 1986 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Fascículo | 2-3 |
| Páginas | 231-239 |
| Data de publicação | 1986-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | World Englishes (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0883-2919 • E-ISSN: 1467-971X |
| Editora | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-971x.1986.tb00729.x |
| OpenAlex | W1991002239 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 6 |
| Referências citadas | 5 |
This paper raises some theoretical issues on language as power and examines the role of English language and media in modern India in terms of the British cultural policies in nineteenth-century India, and Indian reactions to those policies. The power of language is conceptualized as forces of strategic relations supporting and suported by types of knowledge. The British cultural policies in India, based on particular types of knowledge about India, first developed as the Orientalist policy, and later changed to the Anglicist policy. Each of those had a different knowledge-base, each supported a different position regarding English and Western education for the Indians, and each elicited a different response from the Indians. The role of English as a power apparatus was determined by certain relationships between the British colonialists and the Indian intellectuals, as they confronted each other in the context of the cultural policies and reactions to those policies. The net result was the appropriation of English in India as a special cultural resource allocated and used for specific strategies purposes. The development of Indian English was the result of that cultural appropriation
Appropriation · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Cultural appropriation · Indian English · Language policy · Linguistics · Literature · Orientalism · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Multilingual Education and Policy · Political theory and Gramsci
| Obras citantes distintas | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 0,16 |
| Intervalo de citações | 1989 - 2014 (26) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 6 |