Explorations in Indian sociolinguistics

Rajendra Singh ;

Explorations in Indian sociolinguistics - New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, 1995. - 258 p. : - Language and development (New Delhi, India), v. 2. .

Includes Index.

Foreword - Udaya Narayana SinghIntroduction - Rajendra Singh, Probal Dasgupta and Jayant K LeleThe Autonomy of Phonological Variables - Rajendra Singh and Alan Ford Schwa Deletion in Hindi and Other Objects of WonderThe Autonomy of Social Variables - Rajendra Singh and Jayant K Lele The Indian Evidence RevisitedModern Hindustani and Formal and Social Aspects of Language Contact - Rajendra SinghCommunication in a Multilingual Society - Rajendra Singh, Jayant K Lele and Gita Martohardjono Some Missed OpportunitiesLanguage, Power and Cross-Sex Communication Strategies in Hindi and Indian English Revisited - Rajendra Singh and Jayant K LeleWe, They and Us - Rajendra Singh A Note on Code-Switching and Stratification in North IndiaOn the Sociolinguistics of English in India - Probal DasguptaSanskrit and Indian English - Probal Dasgupta Some Linguistic ConsiderationsThe Image of Sanskrit - Probal Dasgupta Structuralism and its Brahminical AntecedentsReview of Gumperz, Language and Social Identity - Rajendra Singh and Gita MartohardjonoReview of Bhatia, A History of the Hindi Grammatical Tradition - Rajendra Singh

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Sociolinguistics -- India.
Sociolinguistics -- South Asia.
India -- Languages -- Political aspects.
South Asia -- Languages -- Political aspects.
South Asia -- Languages -- Variation.
Language and languages -- Political aspects.
Language and languages -- Variation.
Sociolinguistics.
India.
South Asia.

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