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Title:
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Discourse on English: A linguistic dilemma in West Bengal
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Author:
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Anuradha De
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Degree Awarded:
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Calcutta University
, Department of Linguistics
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Degree Date:
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2005
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Discourse Analysis
Sociolinguistics
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Subject Language(s):
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English
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Director(s):
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Mina Dan
Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay
Amitav Chaudhry
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Abstract:
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The thesis (a) analyzes the discourse on English in the colonial and post-colonial context of India as a whole and West Bengal in particular ; (b) studies the language planning policies as well as educational policies in the context of plurilingual repertoire of India and West Bengal.
A corpus of published official reports on language education, education, research works in the related fields, various public opinions available in the printed form, media reports, and the empirical evidences collected in a planned sample survey on the Bangla medium school students of West Bengal have been critically analyzed by deploying the post-structural methods of Discourse Analysis and Likert method of language attitude analysis.
In the first chapter there is a brief prologue on Muciram Gurer Jiboncorit (A Biography of Muciram gur) by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and I Has by Kedarnath Bandyopadhyay. The second chapter contains the goal, scope and methodology of the thesis. The third chapter concentrates on the colonial discourse on English language in India and Southeast Asia. The fourth chapter is on the status of English in post-independence India. A brief diachronic survey of the language planning policies in administrative as well as academic sectors and debates over linguistic decisions involved in reconstruction of Indian nation-state is the theme of this chapter. Polemics on learning English language in the Bangla medium schools of West Bengal during the last two decades has been dealt in the fifth chapter with reference to both governmental and public discourses. The sixth chapter contains a survey on the linguistic attitudes of students, teachers, guardians and language-managers. The sample survey data have been analyzed deploying Likert Method in statistics in order to substantiate the hypothesis extended in this thesis. In this concluding chapter attempts have been made to understand the implications of such diachronic discursive formations in the linguistic policy making with special reference to literacy, status and corpus planning for languages and its implications.
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