| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 608 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 534-587) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Language history, families, and typology -- Languages and their functions -- Sanskrit and traditions of language study -- Multilingualism, contact, and convergence -- Orality, literacy, and writing systems -- Language conflicts -- Language and modernization -- Language and discourse -- Language and identity -- Languages in diaspora. |
| Summary |
South Asia is a rich and fascinating linguistic area, its many hundreds of languages from four major language families representing the distinctions of caste, class, profession, religion, and region. This comprehensive new volume presents an overview of the language situation in this vast subcontinent in a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context. An invaluable resource, it comprises authoritative contributions from leading international scholars within the fields of South Asian language and linguistics, historical linguistics, cultural studies and area studies. Topics covered include the ongoing linguistic processes, controversies, and implications of language modernization; the functions of South Asian languages within the legal system, media, cinema, and religion; language conflicts and politics, and Sanskrit and its long traditions of study and teaching. Language in South Asia is an accessible interdisciplinary book for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language planning and South Asian studies. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics -- South Asia.
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Sociolinguistics. |
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South Asia. |
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Multilingualism -- South Asia.
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Multilingualism. |
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Language planning -- South Asia.
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Language planning. |
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Indic philology.
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Indic philology. |
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South Asia -- Languages.
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Language and languages. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Kachru, Braj B.
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Kachru, Yamuna.
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Sridhar, S. N.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Language in South Asia. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 (DLC) 2006037011 |
| ISBN |
9781139129077 (electronic book) |
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1139129074 (electronic book) |
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9780521781411 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0521781418 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780521786539 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0521786533 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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