Experts, dialects, and discourse.

Autor/in	Bhatt, Rakesh Mohan
Titel	Experts, dialects, and discourse.
Quelle	In: International journal of applied linguistics, 12 (2002) 1, S. 74-109Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anmerkungen; Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1473-4192
DOI	10.1111/1473-4192.00025
Schlagwörter	Ideologie; Empirische Forschung; Dialekt; Diskursanalyse; Spracherwerb; Sprachliche Dominanz; Standardsprache; Fremdsprache; Englisch; Kolonialismus; Sprachpolitik; Diskurs; Forschungskritik
Abstract	The paper examines "expert" discourse - complexes of signs and practices that organize and legitimize social existence and social reproduction - to demonstrate the ideological processes involved in the manufacture of Standard English ideology and its continual duplication as necessitated by the three axiomatic conceptions of the English-sacred imagined community (cf. Anderson 1991). It is argued that the hierarchical structure needed to sustain the sacred imagined community can only be guaranteed if Standard English is accepted by all members as inevitable and the speakers of this standard accepted as uncontested authorities of English language use. How is this ideological manipulation and indoctrination in fact accomplished? The paper focuses on two sites of ideological manipulation - the learning and teaching of English in post-colonial contexts - and argues that expert promulgations enable what Foucault has called régimes of truth to be organized around the language. Expert discourse establishes a habit of thought which makes the standard variety of English (British/American) desirable, necessary, normal, natural, universal, and essential, and all other varieties instances of deficit and deviation. The key ideological process is a naturalizing move that drains the conceptual of its historical content, making it seem universal and timelessly true (Woolard & Schieffelin 1994). (Verlag, adapt.).
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