The Way we Talk as a Representation of the Way we Think: An Analysis of how the Government is Speaking to the Masses

Kakkar, Shweta (2014) The Way we Talk as a Representation of the Way we Think: An Analysis of how the Government is Speaking to the Masses. Language and Language Teaching, 3 (1). pp. 33-36. ISSN 2277-307X

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Abstract

All languages around the world find themselves ranked in the same hierarchies of power and politics, as do other systems of society. For example, in India, it is acceptable for a fluent speaker of English to not know Hindi, though the opposite scenario is a reflection of poor skills of an individual. Even within the same language, the differences in the way that people use the language tend to be on a continuum and may range from negligible variations to significant differences.

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