Language and Society in South Asia

Language and Society in South Asia
Title Language and Society in South Asia PDF eBook
Author Michael C. Shapiro
Publisher Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Pages 314
Release 2008-09-30
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9788120826076

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During the past two decades there has been a significant amount of research and publication concerning the sociolinguistics of South Asian languages. Language and Society in South Asia is the first major attempt to assess the impact of this new literature. It exposits the methodological and theoretical assumptions of sociolinguistic descriptions of south Asian languages, and contrasts them with the assumptions of earlier characterizations of these languages. An important feature of this book is its detailed examination of numerous schools of linguistic analysis within which most past descriptive work on South Asian languages has been carried out. This is done in language accessible both to the professional linguist and to non-linguists interested in social aspects of language use in South Asia. Among the topics treated in this book are traditional taxonomies of South Asian languages, South Asia as a linguistic area, social dialectology, bi- and multilingualism in South Asia, pidginization, creolization, and South Asian English, ethnographic semantics, and the ethnography of speaking. The work also contains an extensive bibliography of the scholarly literature pertinent to the study of South Asian languages in their social contexts.

Language in South Asia

Language in South Asia
Title Language in South Asia PDF eBook
Author Braj B. Kachru
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 633
Release 2008-03-27
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 0521781418

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An overview of the language in South Asia within a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context, comprising authoritative contributions from international scholars within the field of language and linguistics. It is an accessible interdisciplinary book for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language planning and South Asian studies.

Language and Society

Language and Society
Title Language and Society PDF eBook
Author Andrew Simpson
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 546
Release 2019-01-02
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0190940204

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Language and Society is a broad introduction to the interaction of language and society, intended for undergraduate students majoring in any academic discipline. The book discusses the complex socio-political roles played by large, dominant languages around the world and how the growth of major national and official languages is threatening the continued existence of smaller, minority languages. As individuals adopt new ways of speaking, many languages are disappearing, others are evolving into hybrid languages with distinctive new forms, and even long-established languages are experiencing significant change, with young speakers creating novel expressions and innovative pronunciations. Making use of a wide range of case studies selected from the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, Andrew Simpson describes and explains key factors causing language variation and change which relate to societal structures and the expression of group and personal identity. The volume also examines how speakers' knowledge of language acts as an important force controlling access to education, advances in employment and the development of social status. Additional topics discussed in the volume focus on the global growth of English, gendered patterns of language use, and the influence of language on perception.

Linguistic Archaeology of South Asia

Linguistic Archaeology of South Asia
Title Linguistic Archaeology of South Asia PDF eBook
Author Franklin Southworth
Publisher Routledge
Pages 384
Release 2004-08-02
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 1134317778

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Linguistics Archaeology of South Asia brings together linguistics and archaeological evidence of South Asian prehistory.

Negotiating Languages

Negotiating Languages
Title Negotiating Languages PDF eBook
Author Walter N. Hakala
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 317
Release 2016-08-30
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0231542127

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Prior to the nineteenth century, South Asian dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies reflected a hierarchical vision of nature and human society. By the turn of the twentieth century, the modern dictionary had democratized and politicized language. Compiled "scientifically" through "historical principles," the modern dictionary became a concrete symbol of a nation's arrival on the world stage. Following this phenomenon from the late seventeenth century to the present, Negotiating Languages casts lexicographers as key figures in the political realignment of South Asia under British rule and in the years after independence. Their dictionaries document how a single, mutually intelligible language evolved into two competing registers—Urdu and Hindi—and became associated with contrasting religious and nationalist goals. Each chapter in this volume focuses on a key lexicographical work and its fateful political consequences. Recovering texts by overlooked and even denigrated authors, Negotiating Languages provides insight into the forces that turned intimate speech into a potent nationalist politics, intensifying the passions that partitioned the Indian subcontinent.

Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia

Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia
Title Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia PDF eBook
Author Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi
Publisher Routledge
Pages 205
Release 2022-05-17
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1000542289

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Anchored within current issues and debates in the field of Linguistic Landscape (LL) scholarship, this edited volume is concerned with politics of language and the semiotic construction of space in multilingual and multi-ethnic Asian countries. Spanning Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China, the chapters explore how different individuals and collectivities use semiotic resources in different spaces – schools, airports, streets and shops as well as online platforms – to reinforce or contest existing social structures, bearing strong implications for language maintenance and cultural revitalization, construction of ethnolinguistic and national identities, and socioeconomic mobility. Part I looks into how globalization and its accompanying forces and influences – such as the importance of English in socioeconomic mobility – come into contact with local Asian cultures and languages. Part II examines minority languages, demographically and socio-politically established in the countries, shedding light on the role of LL that plays in both their minorization and revitalization processes. Part III investigates how LL is utilized as a site for constructing identities to pursue socioeconomic, political and cultural goals. It is within this perspective that the presence and salience of English in the LL of the countries along with the use of the Asian languages is analyzed and understood, shedding light on how Asian heritage languages and cultures are preserved and/or certain identities in the times of political unrest or economic development are expressed. This fascinating insight into linguistic landscapes in Asia will be of interest to researchers, students and policy makers in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics anywhere in the world.

Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia

Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia
Title Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia PDF eBook
Author Lee Hock Guan
Publisher Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Pages 249
Release 2007
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9812304827

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Papers from a workshop on Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia held in Singapore, 2003.