English in the Indian Diaspora

Name: English in the Indian Diaspora
Brand: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Marianne Hundt Devyani Sharma(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 28. August 2014

IX, 244 Seiten

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English in the Indian Diaspora
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
List of tables
List of figures
1. Introduction
Acknowledgements
References
2. Indo-Trinidadian speech: An investigation into a popular stereotype surrounding pitch
1. Introduction
2. Historical, social, and linguistic background of the Indo-Trinidadian population
3. Previous studies of Indo-Trinidadian speech
4. An investigation into a popular stereotype surrounding pitch
5. Method
6. Results
7. Discussion
8. Conclusion and outlook
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix
3. Identity, ethnicity and fine phonetic detail: An acoustic phonetic analysis of syllable-initial /
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
References
4. East African Indian twice migrants in Britain: Phonological variation across generations
1. Introduction
2. Socio-historical background
3. Postvocalic /r/
4. Method
5. Results
6. Discussion
7. Conclusion
References
5. Sociophonetics and the Indian diaspora
1. Introduction
2. Background to SAIE
3. Some salient features of SAIE phonetics in relation to IE
4. A case study: Variation in the NURSE vowel among younger SAIE speakers
5. Conclusion
References
6. Imperfectives in Singapore's Indian community
1. Introduction
2. Historical background
3. Singapore's Indian community
4. Ethnic variation in Singapore English
5. Aspect in English, Sinitic, and Dravidian
6. Methodology
7. Results
8. Discussion
References
7. Zero articles in Indian Englishes: A comparison of primary and secondary diaspora situations
1. Introduction
2. The Indian diaspora in Fiji and the secondary Fiji-Indian Diaspora
3. Data and data retrieval
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusion
References
Appendix
8. A lesser globalisation: A sociolexical study of Indian Englishes in diaspora, with a primary focu
1. Introduction
2. Historical considerations: Layers of diaspora history
3. Themes in comparative studies of second diaspora lexis
4. Cultural aspects of lexical retention and variation
5. Conclusion
References
9. Indo-Fijian English: Linguistic diaspora or endonormative stabilization?
1. Introduction
2. Indians in Fiji - socio-history and sociolinguistic situation
3. Data and methodology
4. Analysis and results
5. Conclusion
References
10. Transnational flows, language variation, and ideology
1. Introduction
2. Transnational communities
3. Methodology: Measuring transnational activity and language variation
4. Transnational activity in the present community
5. Transnational activity and language variation
6. Transnational ideologies and language variation
7. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Index

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