A socially realistic view of world Englishes: Reflections on gendered discourse  

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Valentine, Tamara R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: World Englishes (Full Text) vol. 34 no. 1 (2015), page 149-163.
Topik: Socially realistic; World Englishes; Reflections; Gendered discourse
Fulltext: weng12126.pdf (140.12KB)

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The work of Braj Kachru and Yamuna Kachru has inspired generations of scholars to take a socially realistic view of the global spread of English. It is the work of Yamuna Kachru, however, who argues that taking an integrative sociocultural approach to the study of world Englishes to examine linguistic interaction expresses not only the bilingual’s creativity but also provides valuable methodological and theoretical insights into the discoursal structure inworld Englishes. Adopting the sociocultural linguistic approach, this paper examines how speakers construct gender in Indian English discourse. Using examples from naturally occurring spoken conversations, this paper shows that the interplay between language and identity is rooted in the cultural beliefs and values of speakers. The socially realistic approach contextualizes the culture of language to explain language variation in the Outer Circle.

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