Unequal discursivities and the symbolic capital of Malaysian Indian scholarship

Bibliographic Data

ID4887914
AuthorsPillai (0000-0002-7555-5698, National University of Malaysia , Bangi , Malaysia, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume2021
Issue267-268
Pages241-251
Publication date2021-03-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ijsl-2020-0072
OpenAlexW3137336527
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited8

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