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Tag Archives: Pakistan
Accent and history
This is the story of a young Pakistani man, let’s call him Reza. Reza spent his early years in what was then East-Pakistan and what is today a different country, Bangladesh. Reza’s family were Muslims from Bihar, who at the … Continue reading
Posted in Language, migration & social justice, Recent Posts
Tagged accent, Baluchi, banal nationalism, Bangla, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Liberation War, Bihar, Bihari, Colonialism, Discrimination, English, English as a Global Language, Human rights, India, Indian Partition, Karachi, Linguistic autobiography, Migration, Monolingualism, Multilingualism, Pakistan, Pashto, Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu
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Sociolinguistics 2.0
Seeing that Kraft’s idea to brand their new Vegemite cheese spread as iSnack 2.0 has just backfired badly on them, I’m not so sure about the wisdom of talking about Sociolinguistics 2.0 right now. But then a technology-based name for … Continue reading
