English and Globalization in India: The Fractal Nature of Discourse

There are many different discourses about English in India that emerge from different subject positions. The discourses of both the English-dominant and the English-excluded draw on similar themes and on dominant ideologies of globalization, but produce discourses that are refractions of each other. At a theoretical level, this gives us insight into interdiscursivity and how dominant discourses shape the formation of non-dominant discourses. I suggest that such discourses have a fractal nature, being products of iteration and manifesting similar structures, and offer the concept of fractal discursivity as a way of analyzing this kind of interdiscursivity.