The lack of knowledge about impolite disagreement strategies can result in misunderstanding and consequently lead to an unsuccessful process of communication. This article investigates the arguments of nationalist writers and highlights their masculinist and patriarchal ideas in their bid for the new national language. The linguistic ideology that accompanied these revisions was of projecting Hindi (Khari Boli) as a national language while limiting spaces of other languages, such as Braj, Urdu and Bhojpuri, in the region, by criticizing either their use of sexual imagery or by stereotyping them in a gendered way. The article looks at the colonial ideology that worked as an enforcer for the nationalists to work towards achieving what they felt as a sanitized and moral form of literature and culture.
It involved not just censoring certain representations of women and their cultural spaces, but also using the issue of ‘vulgar’ representations as a premise to marginalize certain languages and their literature. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 1107029058, 1107659361, 1107301734, 9781107029057, 9781107659360, 9781107301733, 1107302838, 1299006329, 1316179656, 9781107302839, 9781299006324, 9781316179659.This article takes the linguistic space of North India during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and tries to see how a nationalistic linguistic ideology that was shaping up at that time, creating Hindi and Urdu linguistic communities, used gender as a tool to portray and assert a masculinist vision of language and nation. Save up to 80% versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Language and Gender 2nd Edition is written by Penelope Eckert Sally McConnell-Ginet and published by Cambridge University Press.
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