6a Indigenization Of English In South A

Indigenization of English in South Asia/Pakistan
Rescuing Culture?

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Questions
Linguistic Levels of Indigenization
How is it happening?
What will be the future?

Can we drive English away?
• A. R. Haque:
– “It may not be possible to alter the position of the English language in the national set-up radically, or to reduce its role” (1993, p. 17).
• A. Mahboob:
– “No English, no future: Language policy in Pakistan” (2002)

So what about cultural loss?
• A. P. Saleemi:
– If so, what about the cultural loss that is being talked much about? This is where the process of indigenization of English, that has already started, sounds legitimate. – It is assumed by many that non-native
English is already a de-ethnicized or minimally ethnicized language (1993, p.
34). -

Is indigenization really happening?
Postcolonial Englishes/englishes (Ashcroft et al., 2002; Schneider, 2007), Global
English(es) (Sonntag, 2003; Pennycook,
2007), World English(es) (Gilsdorf, 2002;
Kachru & Smith, 2008; Phillipson, 2009;
Hoffmann & Siebers, 2009), the New
Englishes (Platt et al., 1984), Chinese
Englishes (Bolton, 2003), South Asian
Englishes (Aggarwal, 1982), Indian English
(Gokak, 1964; Kachru, 1983), Pakistani
English (Jamil, 1963; Baumgardner, 1993;
Talaat, 1993; Uzair, 2011; Khan, 2012), etc. **

Insights from research

• Indigenization (Kachru, 1983; Baumgardner, 1993;
Mufwene, 2009)
• Appropriation (Ashcroft et al., 2002) /
• South Asianization (Aggarwal, 1982; Kachru, 1983)
• Indianization (Rao, 1954; Gokak, 1964; Kachru,
1983; Mehrotra, 1998)
• Pakistanization (Rahman, 1990; Baumgardner,
1993; Talaat, 1993; Hassan, 2004; Khan, 2012;
Sheeraz, 2014)
• Islamization (Mahboob, 2009)
• Urduization (Baumgardner, Kennedy & Shamim,
1993)
• Chutnification (Snell & Kothari, 2011)

Levels indigenization is happening at?
• Lexical Level:
– Kachru’s hybrid formations: 1) South Asian
Item as Head e.g. British sarkar; 2) South
Asian Item as Modifier e.g. babu English; 3)
String

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