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E nglish and Globalization in I ndia: The Fractal Nature of Discourse
Author(s) -
Proctor Lavanya Murali
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of linguistic anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.463
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1548-1395
pISSN - 1055-1360
DOI - 10.1111/jola.12056
Subject(s) - globalization , ideology , fractal , subject (documents) , sociology , gender studies , linguistics , epistemology , political science , philosophy , politics , mathematics , law , computer science , mathematical analysis , library science
There are many different discourses about E nglish in I ndia that emerge from different subject positions. The discourses of both the E nglish‐dominant and the E nglish‐excluded draw on similar themes and on dominant ideologies of globalization, but produce discourses that are refractions of each other. At a theoretical level, this gives us insight into interdiscursivity and how dominant discourses shape the formation of non‐dominant discourses. I suggest that such discourses have a fractal nature, being products of iteration and manifesting similar structures, and offer the concept of fractal discursivity as a way of analyzing this kind of interdiscursivity.