Class Consciousness in Kashmiri Language
Srinagar, March 17 -- Language is deeply imbricated in the flesh of civilisation. Chomsky beautifully explains the relation between language and freedom and how "language, in its essential properties and in a manner of its use provides a basic criterion for determining that an organism is a being with a human mind". Therefore, the will to express is the basis of language, it is not a static concept that is free from social transformation. Antonio Gramsci powerfully formulates the principle that language does not merely produce other languages by reacting solely upon itself: on the contrary, innovations occur through the interference of different cultures.
The language is a prime playground for communicative, social and political identiti...
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