What is it about?
Examining English and Hindi conversational engagement between South Asian Indian female speakers in three separate interactions, this paper examines how speakers construct their individual gender identities consistent with the norms of their culture and their assigned social gender identities through the interactional work that the speakers perform to gain methodological and theoretical insights into the discourse structure in world Englishes.
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Why is it important?
Adopting the ‘pragmatically and functionally realistic model’ to study active language use in the context of world Englishes, this paper argues for a socially realistic view of the global spread of English in spoken and written discourse. Speakers construct their gender identities within the norms of their culture through language performance.
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This article was written in memory of my mentors Dr. Braj Kachru and Dr. Yamuna Kachru, who examined language through the lens of a multilingual, multicultural global context. Through their work on the sociolinguistic reality of world Englishes, these two professors have influenced my work and the work of many generations of scholars.
Tamara Valentine
University of Nevada Reno
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This page is a summary of: A socially realistic view of world Englishes: Reflections on gendered discourse, World Englishes, February 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/weng.12126.
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