Language Variation in South Asia
South Asia presents the linguist with a bewildering variety of regional dialects, social dialects, formal and informal registers, literary standards, languages, writing systems, and language families. Written over a period of more than twenty years, these essays by a leading authority on South Asian language cover a broad range of topics in South Asian linguistics. The essays address social dialect, structural borrowing, areal linguistics, the relation between literary and colloquial standards, and the role of written language in South Asian culture from the times of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Offering a sociolinguistic approach,…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-536249-7
- EAN: 9780195362497
- Produktnummer: 13858852
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1990
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 8'386 KB
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