Publications

Publication details [#54999]

Haque, Muhammed Shahriar and Zainul Abedin. 2011. The discursive construction of (a)moral names: Religion versus language. Multilingua 30 (3,4) : 377–390.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This study argues that the impact of Muslim religion when selecting a Bangla name in Bangladesh has to be examined from a critical discourse analytic (CDA) approach, because people are to be explained why Bangla names are considered amoral, meaningless and opposing Islamic tradition.