Different Connotation of "Development"(Economics)
“Development” as it is deployed in Economics is also followed by Sociolinguists. Their questions are: What is developed language and what is under/un-developed language? The popular notions of “good” standard language vis a vis dialect, patois, Pidgin, Creole, Folk-language etc., which are used in the classroom discourse also, are contested by some post-structuralists following Phillipson. The cultural convention of using these terms in an epistemological discipline is approximated by the extra-linguistic socio-economic condition. An E-language is developed if and only if the capital-relationship established through the investment of money-sign.
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