ENGLISH AS SOCIAL CAPITAL: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF LINGUISTIC IDENTITY, GENDER, AND SOCIAL HIERARCHY IN ENGLISH VINGLISH (2012)
This study analyzes the social and linguistic capital of English in the film English Vinglish (2012) directed by Gauri Shinde critically, especially in the contexts of linguistic identity, gender and social class. The study takes a qualitative research approach and adopts Fairclough's Three-Dimensional Model of Critica...