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Publication details [#66894]

Hall, Kira. 2019. Middle class timelines: Ethnic humor and sexual modernity in Delhi. Language in Society 48 (4) : 491–517.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
ethnicity | formulaic expression | gender | globalization | humor | joke | middle class | modernization | multilingualism | sex | sexual modernity | youth
Language as a subject
Hindi | Hinglish
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Journal WWW
journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

The rise of India's global economy has reinforced a perception of English as a language of sexual modernity within the expanding middle classes. This paper examines this perception in the multilingual humor of Hindi-speaking Delhi youth marginalized for sexual and gender difference.