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WILLIAMS, P. "Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory." Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 1, no. 1 (January 1, 1991): 127–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/1.1.127.

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WILLIAMS, P. "Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory." Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 2, no. 1 (January 1, 1992): 138–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/2.1.138.

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McGowan, K. "Colonial Discourse, Postcolonial Theory." Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 3, no. 1 (January 1, 1993): 131–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/3.1.131.

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WILLIAMS, P. "Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory." Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 4, no. 1 (January 1, 1994): 124–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/4.1.124.

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WILLIAMS, P. "Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory." Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 5, no. 1 (January 1, 1995): 79–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/5.1.79.

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WILLIAMS, P. "Colonial Discourse, Postcolonial Theory." Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 6, no. 1 (January 1, 1996): 57–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/6.1.57.

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WILLIAMS, P. "Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory." Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 7, no. 1 (January 1, 1997): 42–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/7.1.42.

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WILLIAMS, P. "Colonial Discourse, Postcolonial Theory." Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 8, no. 1 (January 1, 2001): 22–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/8.1.22.

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WILLIAMS, P., and N. YOUSAF. "4 Colonial Discourse, Postcolonial Theory." Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 9, no. 1 (January 1, 2002): 33–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbe004.

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WILLIAMS, P., and P. MOREY. "4 Colonial Discourse, Postcolonial Theory." Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 10, no. 1 (January 1, 2002): 38–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbf004.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Colonial Discourse Theory"

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Nielsen, Danielle Leigh. "Reading the Empire from Afar: From Colonial Spectacles to Colonial Literacies." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1301074476.

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Connal, Criana. "Draupadi, Sati, Savitri : the question of women's identity in colonial discourse theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244219.

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Burns, Brian. "Hybridization of the Self, Colonial Discourse and the Deconstruction of Value Systems : A Postcolonial Literary Theory Perspective of Literature inculpating Colonialism." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35112.

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The aim of this essay is to provide a perspective on literature inculpating colonialism using postcolonial literary theory and method. The subject material incorporates four novels studied during the literature modules for the English course at Högskolan Gävle (HIG). The four novels combine to highlight various issues that affect the Self-identity through hybridization and colonial discourse as well as the detrimental nature of the colonial project for indigenous value systems during the period of colonialism. There is also application of theories and concepts raised in academic literature from within and outside the curriculum of HIG. The use of the postcolonial literary methodology provides a critical perspective of the aforementioned literature while implementing theories associated with that movement such as hybridity and the redefining of borders as well as focusing on the social, cultural, political and religious impact of the coloniser’s activities in the colonies as raised in the novels.  The most significant findings of this essay include the roles of isolation and disconnection within the colonial project and the subsequential effects on the colonised and their descendants. There are findings and observations of the level of strategic application of universalistic colonial discourse and the intrinsic application of the language used in the objectification of the indigenous and the subjugation of their value systems. The role of perception is also highlighted including findings on the social implications for the colonies inhabitants, both dissident and conformist, raised within the chosen literature and this essay. The essay also examines the application of various strands of literary theory incorporated within postcolonialism including poststructuralism and psychoanalytic criticism as well as anthropology material.  The conclusion of this essay culminates with the conflicting interpretations of progress as a universalism that counters the theories of postcolonialists and poststructuralists and their subsequent refusal to succumb to literature’s prevalence. The subjectivity of the postcolonial literary theorist and the self-imposed parameters restrict the interpretation of the colonial and postcolonial literature. The aforementioned progress defined by improved standards of health, education and social justice is lacking in presence in both the postcolonial literature and the accompanying literary theory counterpart. Subsequently, the disconnected voice of isolation and the split/double identity take precedence over higher standards of living and the appreciation of access to improved human rights and social justice within postcolonial society.
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Al, Saad Tamy, and Anders Nyman. "New Course, New Discourse, New Racism? : Right-Wing Alternative Media in Sweden." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för juridik, ekonomi, statistik och politik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-14113.

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Like elsewhere in Europe, the tides of nationalist right-wing rhetoric in Sweden have become instrumental in generating a wave of anti-liberal and anti-immigration sentiments in politics and media. In particular, one branch of right-wing alternative media has become a breeding ground for normalizing such rhetoric. Does the anti-immigration stance in such media disguise racist inclinations? In this thesis we examine the discourse of three right-wing alternative media sites in Sweden to explore the possible employment of different types of racism in their articles. By taking the constructivist viewpoint and adopting the post-colonial conceptions of the 'Self' and the 'Other', racist discourse was analyzed and characterized as either biological or cultural. From these two theories, we derived concepts concerning descriptions of contemporary and ideal Swedish society that will be used as further indicators of racist discourses. In this single case study, 94 articles from Fria Tider, Nya Tider, and Samhällsnytt were analyzed on the topics of immigration, integration and crime through a qualitative content analysis. The results show that most of the articles contain cultural racist discourse.
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Tofighian, Nadi. "Blurring the Colonial Binary : Turn-of-the-Century Transnational Entertainment in Southeast Asia." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-94155.

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This dissertation examines and writes the early history of distribution and exhibition of moving images in Southeast Asia by observing the intersection of transnational itinerant entertainment and colonialism. It is a cultural history of turn-of-the-century Southeast Asia, and focuses on the movement of films, people, and amusements across oceans and national borders. The starting point is two simultaneous and interrelated processes in the late 1800s, to which cinema contributed. One process, colonialism and imperialism, separated people into different classes of people, ruler and ruled, white and non-white, thereby creating and widening a colonial binary. The other process was bringing the world closer, through technology, trade, and migration, and compressing the notions of time and space. The study assesses the development of cinema in a colonial setting and how its development disrupted notions of racial hierarchies. The first decade of cinema in Southeast Asia, particularly in Singapore, is used as a point of reference from where issues such as imperialism, colonial discourse, nation-building, ethnicity, gender, and race is discussed. The development of film exhibition and distribution in Southeast Asia is tracked from travelling film exhibitors and agents to the opening of a regional Pathé Frères office and permanent film venues. By having a transnational perspective the interconnectedness of Southeast Asia is demonstrated, as well as its constructed national borders. Cinematic venues throughout Southeast Asia negotiated segregated, colonial racial politics by creating a common social space where people from different ethnic and social backgrounds gathered. Furthermore, this study analyses what kind of worldview the exhibited pictures had and how audiences reproduced their meanings.
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Abdel-Naim, Samir A. "Orientalism in transit : orientalist discourse and post-colonial theory in literary representation of Eastern Europe in Olivia Manning's The Balkan trilogy and The Levant trilogy." Thesis, University of Reading, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494775.

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This thesis 'Orientalism in Transit' examines the literary-cultural representation of Eastern Europe within the discourse of Orientalism as pioneered by Edward Said and, subsequently, by other post-colonial theorists. It, thus, aims to push the boundaries of postcolonial theory beyond its conventional literary-critical landscape. The thesis investigates the complexity and the ambivalence of the place of Eastern Europe in some literary-cultural texts, with particular attention to The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy. Eastern Europe emerges as a paratext, a place that is represented paradoxically as in and out of Europe. The thesis shows how Eastern Europe is subjected to a process of othering. This process, I argue, is not completely dissimilar to the Orientalising of the Saidian Orient. Ideas and concepts of otherness, gender and gendered identities, hybridity, and language are key to my analysis.
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Bellocchi, Alberto. "Learning in the third space : a sociocultural perspective on learning with analogies." Queensland University of Technology, 2009. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/30136/.

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Research on analogies in science education has focussed on student interpretation of teacher and textbook analogies, psychological aspects of learning with analogies and structured approaches for teaching with analogies. Few studies have investigated how analogies might be pivotal in students’ growing participation in chemical discourse. To study analogies in this way requires a sociocultural perspective on learning that focuses on ways in which language, signs, symbols and practices mediate participation in chemical discourse. This study reports research findings from a teacher-research study of two analogy-writing activities in a chemistry class. The study began with a theoretical model, Third Space, which informed analyses and interpretation of data. Third Space was operationalized into two sub-constructs called Dialogical Interactions and Hybrid Discourses. The aims of this study were to investigate sociocultural aspects of learning chemistry with analogies in order to identify classroom activities where students generate Dialogical Interactions and Hybrid Discourses, and to refine the operationalization of Third Space. These aims were addressed through three research questions. The research questions were studied through an instrumental case study design. The study was conducted in my Year 11 chemistry class at City State High School for the duration of one Semester. Data were generated through a range of data collection methods and analysed through discourse analysis using the Dialogical Interactions and Hybrid Discourse sub-constructs as coding categories. Results indicated that student interactions differed between analogical activities and mathematical problem-solving activities. Specifically, students drew on discourses other than school chemical discourse to construct analogies and their growing participation in chemical discourse was tracked using the Third Space model as an interpretive lens. Results of this study led to modification of the theoretical model adopted at the beginning of the study to a new model called Merged Discourse. Merged Discourse represents the mutual relationship that formed during analogical activities between the Analog Discourse and the Target Discourse. This model can be used for interpreting and analysing classroom discourse centred on analogical activities from sociocultural perspectives. That is, it can be used to code classroom discourse to reveal students’ growing participation with chemical (or scientific) discourse consistent with sociocultural perspectives on learning.
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Rodgers, Naomi Alice. "“House and Techno Broke Them Barriers Down”: Exploring Exclusion through Diversity in Berlin’s Electronic Dance Music Nightclubs." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-121659.

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Berlin is heralded worldwide as being a city that is open, innovative and diverse: a true multicultural metropolis. Music plays a central role in the city’s claim to this title. Go to any one of Berlin’s many notorious alternative nightclubs and you will hear techno, house and electronic dance music blasting out to hoards of enthusiastic partygoers. Many of these clubs and their participants claim that these parties represent diversity, acceptance, equality and tolerance: Spaces within which social divisions are suspended, difference is overcome and people are united. This ubiquitous discursive assertion is referred to in this thesis as a “diversity discourse”. This “diversity discourse” will be deconstructed and situated within a wider political context, with a specific focus on perceptions of race, ethnicity, sexuality and gender. Engaging with theories of intersectionality, post-colonial theory (looking specifically at Jasbir Puar’s important work on homonationalism) and employing qualitative methods such as in-depth interviews and autoethnographic inquiry, it will be argued that the “diversity discourse” works as a mask to conceal a reality of social segregation. Far from being sites of equality and diversity, it will be suggested that access to these nightclubs is premised on the possession of societal privilege. That being said, it will also be argued that research into EDM nightclub participation refrain from viewing these clubs within a binary framework of “good” or “bad”; Rather, they should be seen as complex sites of ambivalence, within which multiple identities are acted out and explored. The project contributes to the current body of work within the (post-) discipline of intersectional gender studies, arguing for the need for theorisations in the field to encompass notions of intersecting privilege and disadvantage.
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Feiler, Yael. "Nationen och hans hustru : Feminism och nationalism i Israel med fokus på Miriam Kainys dramatik." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm University, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-94.

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The aim of this thesis is to elucidate the tension between feminism and nationalism in Israel and to investigate the ways by which such discursive currents mark the identities of Israeli women. The specific field of investigation is Israeli theatre, and the identities examined are dramatic characters created by the Israeli playwright Miriam Kainy. Also examined is the character of the playwright herself. Theatre is being observed as a specific field of society in which the position of women can be clarified. What kind of women characters the Israeli theatre produces is therefore a leading question for this study.

Feminist theories, focusing on gender aspects of power relations, together with the postcolonial perspective, which considers power relations by focusing on ethnicity and geopolitical aspects, provide the theoretical tools. The social constructionist viewpoint is used since it provides an appropriate understanding of important notions for the thesis, such as nation and identity, considering them as constructions created by discourse. The discourses focused upon are the national v. the feminist discourse and theatre is viewed as a discourse mediator, which is why the dramatic text is the object of the analysis. The specific method of analysis is inspired by Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis.

The main part of the thesis consists of a discursive analysis of five women characters, constructed within a period of about five decades, namely between the 1950s and 1990s. Each one of these characters consists of an articulation which is considered representative of a specific time-relevant discursive struggle between the two discourses in question. One of the central assumptions of the thesis is that the Israeli national identity is thoroughly masculine. The identity problems it has been causing Israeli women since the time of the pioneers until today are clearly illuminated throughout the analysis. The conclusion emphasises that the subjectpositions being introduced by Israeli national discourse, namely the ways of being a New Jew, an Israeli, collide with those introduced by feminist discourse, i.e. ways of being an independent woman subject. Nevertheless, each and every character demonstrates creative ways of transforming the discourses by aiming at a hybrid formation.

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Howard, Andrew T. "Problems, Controversies, and Compromise: A Study on the Historiography of British India during the East India Company Era." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1492789513835814.

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Books on the topic "Colonial Discourse Theory"

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Noor, Farish A. The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th Century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789089648846.

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The nations of Southeast Asia today are rapidly integrating economically and politically, but that integration is also counterbalanced by forces ranging from hyper-nationalism to disputes over cultural ownership throughout the region. Those forces, Farish A. Noor argues in this book, have their roots in the region's failure to come to a critical understanding of how current national and cultural identities in the region came about. To remedy that, Noor offers a close account of the construction of Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century by the forces of capitalism and imperialism, and shows how that construct remains a potent aspect of political, economic, and cultural disputes today.
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Moran, Arik. Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462985605.

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Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya. Centred on three Rajput led-kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories, it demonstrates how border making practices engendered a modern reading of ‘tradition’ that informs communal identities to this day. Countering the common depiction of these states as all-male, caste-exclusive entities, it reveals the strong familial base of Rajput polity, wherein women — and regent queens in particular — played a key role alongside numerous non-Rajput groups. Drawing on rich archival records, rarely examined local histories, and nearly two decades of ethnographic research, it offers an alternative to the popular and scholarly discourses that developed with the rise of colonial knowledge. The analysis exposes the cardinal contribution of borderland spaces to the fabrication of group identities. This book will interest historians and anthropologists of South Asia and of the Himalaya, as well as scholars working on postcolonialism, gender, and historiography.
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(Editor), Patrick Williams, and Laura Chrisman (Editor), eds. Colonial Discourse/ Post-Colonial Theory. Columbia University Press, 1994.

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1952-, Barker Francis, Hulme Peter 1948-, and Iversen Margaret, eds. Colonial discourse/postcolonial theory. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996.

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1952-, Barker Francis, Hulme Peter, and Iversen Margaret, eds. Colonial discourse, postcolonial theory. Manchester [England]: Manchester University Press, 1994.

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Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory. Longman, 1993.

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(Editor), Patrick Williams, Laura Chrismas (Editor), and Laura Chisman (Editor), eds. Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory. Prentice-Hall, 1993.

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Williams, Patrick, and Laura Chrisman. Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315656496.

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(Editor), Patrick Williams, and Laura Chrisman (Editor), eds. Colonial Discourse/ Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader. Columbia University Press, 1994.

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1951-, Williams Patrick, and Chrisman Laura, eds. Colonial discourse and post-colonial theory: A reader. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "Colonial Discourse Theory"

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Newton, K. M. "Homi K. Bhabha: ‘The Other Question: The Stereotype and Colonial Discourse’." In Twentieth-Century Literary Theory, 293–301. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_54.

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Banerjee, Subhabrata Bobby. "The Practice of Stakeholder Colonialism: National Interest and Colonial Discourses in the Management of Indigenous Stakeholders." In Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis, 255–79. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781403982292_11.

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Distiller, Natasha. "Thought Bodies: Gender, Sex, Sexualities." In Complicities, 107–61. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79675-4_4.

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AbstractThis chapter continues to explore what the theory of complicity brings, this time to gender, sex and sexuality. It offers a history of the emergence of binary gender and its relation to Western modernity as well as to race and other intersectionalities. It explores a complicitous understanding of transgender personhood in and through queer, feminist and psychological discourses. It also applies complicity to the idea of consent in heterosexual relations, and to transnational LGBTQ+ identities and colonial histories, with a focus on South Africa.
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"COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL DISCOURSE THEORY." In Discourse, 115–40. Routledge, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203131725-10.

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"Aimé Césaire From Discourse on Colonialism." In Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory, 184–92. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315656496-20.

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"Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: An Introduction." In Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory, 13–32. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315656496-7.

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"Léopold Sédar Senghor Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century." In Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory, 39–47. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315656496-10.

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"Frantz Fanon On National Culture." In Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory, 48–64. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315656496-11.

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"Amilcar Cabral National Liberation and Culture." In Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory, 65–77. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315656496-12.

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"Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Can the Subaltern Speak?" In Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory, 78–123. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315656496-13.

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Conference papers on the topic "Colonial Discourse Theory"

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Dąbrowska, Marta. "What is Indian in Indian English? Markers of Indianness in Hindi-Speaking Users’ Social Media Communication." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.8-2.

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Public communication in the contemporary world constitutes a multifaceted phenomenon. The Internet offers unlimited possibilities of contact and public expression, locally and globally, yet exerts its power, inducing use of the Internet lingo, loosening language norms, and encourages the use of a lingua franca, English in particular. This leads to linguistic choices that are liberating for some and difficult for others on ideological grounds, due to the norms of the discourse community, or simply because of insufficient language skills and linguistic means available. Such choices appear to particularly characterise post-colonial states, in which the co-existence of multiple local tongues with the language once imperially imposed and now owned by local users makes the web of repertoires especially complex. Such a case is no doubt India, where the use of English alongside the nationally encouraged Hindi and state languages stems not only from its historical past, but especially its present position enhanced not only by its local prestige, but also by its global status too, and also as the primary language of Online communication. The Internet, however, has also been recognised as a medium that encourages, and even revitalises, the use of local tongues, and which may manifest itself through the choice of a given language as the main medium of communication, or only a symbolic one, indicated by certain lexical or grammatical features as identity markers. It is therefore of particular interest to investigate how members of such a multilingual community, represented here by Hindi users, convey their cultural identity when interacting with friends and the general public Online, on social media sites. This study is motivated by Kachru’s (1983) classical study, and, among others, a recent discussion concerning the use of Hinglish (Kothari and Snell, eds., 2011). This paper analyses posts by Hindi users on Facebook (private profiles and fanpages) and Twitter, where personalities of users are largely known, and on YouTube, where they are often hidden, in order to identify how the users mark their Indian identity. Investigated will be Hindi lexical items, grammatical aspects and word order, cases of code-switching, and locally coloured uses of English words and spelling conventions, with an aim to establish, also from the point of view of gender preferences, the most dominating linguistic patterns found Online.
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