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Publication details [#65793]

Mitchell, Lisa. 2019. Language regimes and corporeal practices of ‘making known’: Speech action, collective assembly, and the politics of recognition in India. Language & Communication 66 : 41–54.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | expectation | speech | standardization | written language

Language as a subject

Telugu

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper assays novel hopes placed on speech and written language by the early 20th-century Telugu Spoken Language Movement. It tracks the favoring of individual speech action over collective communication modes. It relates linguistic regimentation to social inequality production.