Bal Krishna Sharma
List of John Benjamins publications in which Bal Krishna Sharma is involved.
Articles
2025 Masculinity and violence in Kathmandu’s Raw Barz rap battles on YouTube Language, Culture and Society 7:1, pp. 68–97 | Article
Existing research on global rap has extensively documented the creative appropriation of Western popular music and its potential for progressive politics. Little attention has been paid to exploring the less favorable aspect of this phenomenon — how rap can potentially perpetuate discriminatory… read more
2022 Citizen Linguistic Landscape, bordering practices, and semiotic ideology in the COVID-19 pandemic The Linguistic Landscape of Covid-19, Lou, Jackie Jia, David Malinowski and Amiena Peck (eds.), pp. 219–232 | Article
This article examines how Linguistic Landscapes in the Covid-19 pandemic construct the borders of place and people. We build on ‘semiotic ideology’ (Keane, 2018) and ‘semiotopology’ (Peck, Stroud & Williams, 2018) to analyze the bordering practices in citizen Linguistic Landscapes during the… read more