Language, discourse and society instead of being in a compartmentalization with each other, often are found to be co-constitutive. But, what kind of discursive sociolinguistics we can speak of, if we intend to trace the trajectories of the everyday-language as practiced by those identities who are considered as the âconstitutive outsideâ of the normative systems of caste, class, gender, religion and sexuality.
Abstract<br /> <br /> “[…] the language of sexuality has lifted us into the night where God is absent […]”[i]<br /> <br /> Language, discourse and society instead of being in a compartmentalization with each other, often are found to be co-constitutive. But, what kind of discursive sociolinguistics we can speak of, if we intend to trace the trajectories of the everyday-language as practiced by those identities who are considered as the ‘constitutive outside’ of the normative systems of caste, class, gender, religion and sexuality. What I intend to argu...
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