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Publication details [#35066]

Singh, Rajendra and Jayant K. Lele. 1990. Language, power, and cross-sex communication strategies in Hindi and Indian English revisited. Language in Society 19 (4) : 541–546.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | language | power | women's vs. men's language

Language as a subject

English, Indian | Hindi

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper critically investigates Valentine's research on cross-sex communication in Indian English and Hindi, and the employed strategy model of discourse, considering power in structural-functional rather than in hierarchical terms.