Publications

Publication details [#53321]

Giri, Ram Ashish. 2010. Cultural anarchism: the consequences of privileging languages in Nepal. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 31 (1) : 87–100.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | language and society | language loss | language status | language use

Language as a subject

English | Nepalese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper shows how the dominance of the Nepali and English language in Nepal has impelled people, speaking other languages, to relinquish their own language and culture in order to become part of mainstream life.