Hegemony of the English Language in India When Rita Kothari mentioned the certain culture gap in her experience with the things she saw in her day to day life and the things mentioned in her academia, I remembered the raging debate I had when I was little – should I call my mom ‘Amma’ or ‘Mummy’? should I enjoy an ‘aam’ or a ‘mango’? I still vividly remember the day, clutching my dad’s hand, sitting in front of my future school principal reciting ‘Twinkle twinkle little star’ even though I had heard
(van Dijk 1993b: 131) CDA objective is to perceive language use as social practice. The users of language do not function in isolation, but in a set of cultural, social and psychological frameworks. CDA accepts this social context and studies the connections between textual structures and takes this social context into account and explores
nationalism, which sometimes takes preexisting cultures and turns them into nations, sometimes invents them, and often obliterates preexisting cultures: that is a reality.' In short, he therefore contends that nationalism comes before nations, or that nations do not make states and nationalisms but it is the other way round. Thirdly the 'national
Human Rights and Caste Discrimination “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” - Article 1 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights We have a multilingual and multicultural society. The idea of unity in diversity prevails in India but with this diversity arise many issues. Casteism is one of the problems that India has been facing for centuries now. Millions of Indians are still denied a life with dignity and equality just because of their caste. An individual’s caste with
is the simplicity of his technique and his unique writing style. Usage of such simple, subordinate and everyday symbols like the newspaper, an empty stomach etc to make extremely powerful and long lasting statements, is an art in its own. Prolific use of metaphors like शुक्ल जी, who is just not any random Mr. Shukla on the road, but one of the many strong Hindu voices which detests muslims; पश्चिम की तरफ़ मुँह करने वाली क़ौमें for signifying muslims across the world; ख़ाली पेट for signifying emptiness
usage of certain message will be feasible only if it suits historical context. Also history influences the message, and frequently propagandists use some events in the past to acquit current doings, to show succession or to show radical distinctions. We assume that reaction of the society can influence the message in future and change it somehow. That is why for the periods of comparison sufficiently big periods of time were taken. For example, Russia between 1994 and 2001 had been passed through several
CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTION “History has come to a stage when the moral man, the complete man, is more and more giving way, almost without knowing it, to make room for the commercial man, the man of limited purpose. This process aided by the wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and power causing the upset of man’s moral balance, obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.”- Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, 1917. Aristotle felt that the purpose of