How many English dailies posted the excerpts from Ayodhya Mahatmya referred to in the SC judgement?
Why did NaMo succeed? Because, he established conversations with his audiences in Gujarati and Hindi.
Langue (French, meaning "language") and parole (meaning "speaking") are linguistic terms distinguished by Ferdinand de Saussure.
Just look at the circulations of dailies in India. Over 10 crore readers read Hindi, 8 crores read Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi, Tamil.
Blogposts in English and emails in e-groups are in English and are disconnected from the language speakers.
This disconnect makes discussions in English (even if translated) appear irrelevant to the language speakers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_India_by_circulation
Why did NaMo succeed? Because, he established conversations with his audiences in Gujarati and Hindi.
Langue (French, meaning "language") and parole (meaning "speaking") are linguistic terms distinguished by Ferdinand de Saussure.
Just look at the circulations of dailies in India. Over 10 crore readers read Hindi, 8 crores read Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi, Tamil.
Blogposts in English and emails in e-groups are in English and are disconnected from the language speakers.
This disconnect makes discussions in English (even if translated) appear irrelevant to the language speakers.
1 | 4,318,377 | ||
2 | Hindi | 4,144,706 | |
3 | 2,826,164 | ||
4 | Hindi | 2,625,343 | |
5 | Hindi | 2,610,784 | |
6 | 2,368,672 | ||
7 | 1,807,998 | ||
8 | 1,525,526 | ||
9 | English | 1,397,944 | |
10 | Malayalam | 1,363,931 | |
11 | 1,204,640 | ||
12 | Hindi | 1,165,506 | |
13 | 1,091,079 | ||
14 | 1,080,478 | ||
15 | Patrika | Hindi | 1,005,485 |
16 | Hindustan Times | English | 1,004,110 |
17 | Dinamalar | Tamil | 848,287 |
18 | Prabhat Khabar | Hindi | 829,982 |
19 | Divya Bhaskar | 822,513 | |
20 | Vijayavani | 760,738 |