Jain, Shruti
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9239-7062
(2019)
How ‘foreign’ are foreign languages? A critical look at India’s current foreign language policy through the prism of multilingualism.
Language in India, 19 (9).
pp. 37-47.
Language in India
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ISSN 1930-2940
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Abstract
Some fleeting moments: The Rabindranath Tagore-Straße in Berlin, the Max Mueller Marg in Delhi – Basmati Rice and Mango Lassi in German supermarkets, Kinder joy eggs and Ritter Sport in Indian departmental stores – Indian restaurants in almost every German city, the Black Forest pastry in every Indian bakery – German cars on Indian roads, Indian craftwork in German malls – German companies in India, Indian students, doctors and IT specialists in Germany, Shah Rukh Khan in Germany, Walter Kaufmann in the All India Radio – Indology in Germany, German studies in India – these and many more are only a few glimpses of spatial interlinkages between an Indian and a so called “foreign” culture today.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | German as a foreign language in India | Globalization | multilingualism | foreignness | attitude | language education policy |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences and humanities > Arts and Humanities > Language and Linguistics |
| Divisions: | Office of English and Foreign Languages |
| Depositing User: | Mr. Abid Fakhre Alam |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Apr 2022 05:10 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Aug 2026 06:39 |
| Official URL: | http://www.languageinindia.com/sep2019/index.html |
| URI: | https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/2024 |
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