This book offers a unique interpretation of the content of the English language in India. Presenting an interdisciplinary account based on his critique of earlier research, the author explains the reasons for the poverty of modern India's English and the role it plays in the general process of modernization and demonstrates how it occupies a functional slot in India's linguistic space.
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`Dasgupta's book is a brilliant intellectual tour de force. It analyses the role, functioning and nature of English in India, and is a provocative challenge to any scholar concerned with English in "development", diglossia, "World Englishes" and processes of indigenization, or at a more theoretical level with the role of language in traditional, modernziing and postmodern societies..... coherent, well-singposeted and lucid' - Applied Linguistics
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978-0-8039-9456-0 (9780803994560)
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Foreword - Udaya Narayana Singh
Introduction
Diglossia
Discourses
Heteronomy
Normativity
India/Bharat
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