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Language in South Asia /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Language in South Asia // edited by Braj B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru, and S.N. Sridhar.
other author:	Kachru, Braj B,
Description:	1 online resource (xxiv, 608 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Sociolinguistics - South Asia. -
Subject:	South Asia - Languages. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511619069
ISBN:	9780511619069 (ebook)

Language in South Asia /
Language in South Asia /edited by Braj B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru, and S.N. Sridhar. - 1 online resource (xxiv, 608 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

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.

ISBN: 9780511619069 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

802173
Sociolinguistics
--South Asia.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

802168
South Asia
--Languages.

LC Class. No.: P381.S58 / L36 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 306.4/40954

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