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_aLanguage in South Asia _h[Book] / _cedited by Braj B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru, and S.N. Sridhar. |
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_aNew Delhi _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2008. |
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_axxiv, 608 p. : _bill., maps ; _c24 cm. |
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500 | _aOriginally published by Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN 9780521786539 | ||
504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 534-587) and indexes. | ||
505 | 0 | _aLanguage 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. | |
520 | _aSouth 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. | ||
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_aSociolinguistics _zSouth Asia. |
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_aMultilingualism _zSouth Asia. |
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_aLanguage planning _zSouth Asia. |
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650 | 0 | _aIndic philology. | |
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_aSouth Asia _xLanguages. |
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700 | 1 | _aKachru, Yamuna. | |
700 | 1 | _aSridhar, S. N. | |
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