English In The Indian Diaspora (varieties Of English Around The World)
by Marianne Hundt /
2014 / English / PDF
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Diasporic populations offer unique opportunities for the study of
language variation and change. This volume is the first collection
of sociolinguistic studies of English use across the historically
complex and widely dispersed Indian diaspora. The contributions
describe particular sociohistorical contexts (the UK, Fiji, South
Africa, Singapore, and the Caribbean) and then use this rich
empirical base to examine diverse questions in theory and method,
such as the extent to which different settings see different or
similar linguistic outcomes; the role of community structures,
transnational ties, attitudes, and identity; reasons for differing
rates of change, adaptation, and focussing; and the relevance of
endonormative stabilization of Asian Englishes. These themes do not
simply further our understandings of diaspora. They can ultimately
feed into wider theoretical questions in language contact studies,
including universals, selection and adaptation of traits, and
interactions between social contact, identity, and language change.
Diasporic populations offer unique opportunities for the study of
language variation and change. This volume is the first collection
of sociolinguistic studies of English use across the historically
complex and widely dispersed Indian diaspora. The contributions
describe particular sociohistorical contexts (the UK, Fiji, South
Africa, Singapore, and the Caribbean) and then use this rich
empirical base to examine diverse questions in theory and method,
such as the extent to which different settings see different or
similar linguistic outcomes; the role of community structures,
transnational ties, attitudes, and identity; reasons for differing
rates of change, adaptation, and focussing; and the relevance of
endonormative stabilization of Asian Englishes. These themes do not
simply further our understandings of diaspora. They can ultimately
feed into wider theoretical questions in language contact studies,
including universals, selection and adaptation of traits, and
interactions between social contact, identity, and language change.