In this dissertation, I investigate the indexicality of the Urdu language in India. I examine the assumed indexical link between Urdu and Muslim identity by analyzing the ideological structures of Muslims and Hindus of Old Delhi. The analysis of the ideologies is supplemented by…
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Between the 1880s and the First World War, the French public exhibited a broad interest in crime. New forms of crime coverage in the popular press and new scientific practices of criminal investigation were both concerned with the authentic representation of true crime and both …
This sociolinguistic ethnography examines how speakers in an urban Bangladeshi market use participant-indexical pronouns, kinterms, and metapragmatic discourse to locate one another in variously defined sectors of social space, including micro-interactional stances, local stereo…