Shivaji Dharanath

ABSTRACT
Language is defined in identity and it turns vital when we speak of
ELT in education for sustainable development. My basic premise is
that social processes are symbolic processes but that symbols have
meaning only in relation to the forces which control the utilization
and allocation of environmental resources. We customarily take
gender, ethnicity, and class as given parameters and boundaries
within which we create our own social identities. The study of
language as interactional discourse demonstrates that these
parameters are not constants that can be taken for granted but are
communicatively produced. Therefore to understand issues of
identity and how they affected by social, political, and ethnic
divisions we need to gain insights into the communicative
processes by which they arise. These goals raise a further basic
uestion. What is it about modern bureaucratic industrial society
that increases the importance of communication processes! What
distinguishes today"s urban situation is the interaction modes
among subgroups and the ways in which individuals of different
backgrounds must relate to each other. The system by which they
are governed have changed. The old form of plural society in
which individuals and families lived no longer e#ists.
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