RIPEnglish”: Race, class and ‘good English’ in India

Author:

Highet Katy1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. University of the West of Scotland

Abstract

AbstractThis 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. Adopting an intersectional framework that highlights the relationality of colonial, racialized, and classed claims to authority, the article shows how the co‐naturalization of language and race shapes assessments of competency and legitimacy and how this is mitigated through anti‐Blackness and appeals to class status. These judgments of “good” and “bad” English work to reassert and undermine racialized authority over the language and position actors within an imagined, global stratified community of speakers. This ambivalent positioning not only helps actors negotiate relational legitimacy as English speakers but also works strategically to benefit certain speakers and reproduce colonial, class, and racial orders.

Funder

UK Research and Innovation

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

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