This article explores how metapragmatic discourses on “good” and “bad” English in India
are mobilized in ways that allow actors to negotiate their status as English speakers …

The dominance of one powerful,'killer'language, particularly in formerly colonized countries,
has been studied mainly in the context of language education in a multilingual scenario …

The aspects of the de jure or overt language policy attract many researchers, which is
reasonable given the importance of legislation in nation-building. Scholars also pay …

The present study is a comprehensive three-tiered empirical framework that investigates the
processes of linguistic diversity and decolonization within the higher education systems of …

In India, where elementary education is a fundamental right, significant barriers stall the
attainment of educational equity through linguistic inclusivity. This article explores student …

Language policy (LP) consists of written (laws, decrees) and unwritten (implicit, covert
ideologies) components (Spolsky, 2019). It may contain explicit or overt mention of language …

How does being an immigrant shape the experience of being deaf and vice versa? Based
on approximately two years of ethnographic research among the deaf immigrant community …

The concept of mother tongue gained salience in India in the mid-nineteenth century and
has been central to language and education policy, scholarship in the humanities and social …