Unequal discursivities and the symbolic capital of Malaysian Indian scholarship

• Autores: Shanthini Pillai
• Localización: International journal of the sociology of language, ISSN 0165-2516, Nº. 267-268, 2021, págs. 241-251
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper engages with the aspects of discursive hegemony in terms of both Metropolitan and disciplinary position and privilege, using the sociology of the language that has been produced on Malaysian Indian identity as my point of reference. It contends that these observations and articulations are able to rise to the surface more easily when they are securely located within disciplinary domains often related to determinacy. I argue that viewed as a whole, it becomes apparent that these discourses are coloured by the subjective desire of the accumulation of knowledge on the subject matters of their writings. As such, they are as much stories that are told of the Malaysian Indian community as those found in literary narratives and can ultimately lead to unequal discursivities.