Women have no honour of their own: Conceptualisations of honor in Indian English and Pakistani English

Ansa Mahmood; Kim Ebensgaard Jensen

doi:10.1075/ijolc.00057.ebe

Women have no honour of their own: Conceptualisations of honor in Indian English and Pakistani English

Ansa Mahmood^*, Kim Ebensgaard Jensen

^*Corresponding author af dette arbejde

Institut for Engelsk, Germansk og Romansk

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Abstract

This paper presents a corpus-based Cultural-Linguistic study of the usage of the word honour in Pakistani and Indian Englishes, addressing underlying cultural conceptualisations of the notion of honour. Honour emerges as a complex cultural model which involves several cultural schemas, cultural categories and cultural metaphors, in which women are cast as responsible pro-tectors and upholders of the honour of men, families, and communities, their bodies being the very locus of men’s honour. The study is based on relatively simple qualitative and quantitative analysis of two specialized corpora representing discourse on honour and related phenomena in Pakistani and Indian Englishes

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	International Journal of Language and Culture
Vol/bind	11
Udgave nummer	1
Sider (fra-til)	95-122
ISSN	2214-3157
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1075/ijolc.00057.ebe
Status	Udgivet - 2024

Bibliografisk note

concretising metaphors, corpus linguistics, Cultural Linguistics, gender, kinship mod-els, semantic preferences, world Englishes

Emneord

Det Humanistiske Fakultet

Adgang til dokumentet

10.1075/ijolc.00057.ebe

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