This is the second volume in a series highlighting questions of language, culture, literature and identity in the context of South Asian development. Using Indian material, the book pushes sociolinguistics to the point of crisis by refusing to correlate unexamined language surfaces with unexamined social appearances. Contributors provide a critique of the body of correlation paradigm research accepted as sociolinguistics and offer an original theory which views linguistics and sociology as studies of norms, and as crucially supplementing each other's ideas of how individuals - who live by these norms - continue to contest them.
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`The book presents a clear theoretical perspective on sociolinguistics in the developing world. It is essential reading in that area' - IASSI Quarterly
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978-0-8039-9238-2 (9780803992382)
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Foreword - Udaya Narayana Singh
Introduction - Rajendra Singh, Probal Dasgupta and Jayant K Lele
The Autonomy of Phonological Variables - Rajendra Singh and Alan Ford
Schwa Deletion in Hindi and Other Objects of Wonder
The Autonomy of Social Variables - Rajendra Singh and Jayant K Lele
The Indian Evidence Revisited
Modern Hindustani and Formal and Social Aspects of Language Contact - Rajendra Singh
Communication in a Multilingual Society - Rajendra Singh, Jayant K Lele and Gita Martohardjono
Some Missed Opportunities
Language, Power and Cross-Sex Communication Strategies in Hindi and Indian English Revisited - Rajendra Singh and Jayant K Lele
We, They and Us - Rajendra Singh
A Note on Code-Switching and Stratification in North India
On the Sociolinguistics of English in India - Probal Dasgupta
Sanskrit and Indian English - Probal Dasgupta
Some Linguistic Considerations
The Image of Sanskrit - Probal Dasgupta
Structuralism and its Brahminical Antecedents
Review of Gumperz, Language and Social Identity - Rajendra Singh and Gita Martohardjono
Review of Bhatia, A History of the Hindi Grammatical Tradition - Rajendra Singh
