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- Title
Women have no honour of their own: Conceptualizations of honor in Indian English and Pakistani English.
- Authors
Mahmood, Ansa; Ebensgaard Jensen, Kim
- Abstract
This article presents a corpus-based Cultural-Linguistic study of the usage of the word honour in Pakistani and Indian Englishes, addressing underlying cultural conceptualizations of the notion of honor. Honor emerges as a complex cultural model which involves several cultural schemas, cultural categories and other cultural conceptualizations, in which women are cast as responsible protectors and upholders of the honor of men, families, and communities, their bodies being the very locus of men's honor. The study is based on a relatively simple qualitative and quantitative analysis of two specialized corpora representing discourse on honor and related phenomena in Pakistani and Indian Englishes.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language in foreign countries; CORPORA
- Publication
International Journal of Language & Culture, 2024, Vol 11, Issue 1, p95
- ISSN
2214-3157
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/ijolc.00057.ebe