Scripting a new identity: The battle for Devanagari in nineteenth century India

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1163-1183

  Ahmad, Rizwan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Erasure; Fractal recursivity; Hindi; Hindu identity; Iconization; Indexicality; Language ideology; Urdu

Indexed keywords

EID: 43849113906     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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