Language regimes and corporeal practices of ‘making known’: Speech action, collective assembly, and the politics of recognition in India

Publication date: Available online 10 November 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Lisa MitchellAbstractThe language regime that imposed an alien standard on the more economically and socially disadvantaged communities and regions of India where Telugu is spoken would likely not have had as large an impact if it had not occurred along with another, even more significant shift in communicative regimes that has been much less documented. This paper argues that over the course of the long nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, individual speech action, the voice of the autonomous individual, and new forms of oral deliberation and debate began to be valorized in ways that diminished the power and legitimacy of collective, corporeal forms of communication and mediation. The new ex...

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