Catchword: vernac

Filed under: English, India

Part of speech: adj.

Quotation: Through their circulation among a fluent English-speaking, often convent-educated community, these joking questions highlight the processes of insider/outsider demarcation common to stereotyping in general. They characterize, for instance, the Tamilian or the Gujarati as having pronounced regional accents when speaking Enlish (creating thus the figure of “the vernac.”)

Article or document title:
“Character Stereotypes” (URL)

Author:
Leela Prasad

Article, document, publication, web site:
South Asian Folklore

Date of publication:
Mar. 1, 2003

Page number:
109

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