Devyani Sharma: From Deficit to Dialect

Cover: 9780195307504 | From Deficit to Dialect | Devyani Sharma | Buch | Englisch | 2023

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Beschreibung

The emergence of new English dialects in postcolonial regions has transformed the politics of English in the world and language ecologies in many regions. Why, how, and when did these dialects develop? Why do they have the accents and grammars that we hear? Are the grammars of these dialects completely different due to the influence of local languages, or similar due to natural tendencies in human cognition? In terms of social identity, do these new speakers behave like native speakers of British or American English, or like language learners?

Focusing on two prominent cases; English in India and in Singapore; this book examines the social, historical, and cognitive forces that together created and continue to shape these dialects. Differences in the linguistic ecology of the two regions help us to identify the strongest mechanisms of dialect formation under long-term cultural contact. The multi-scale analysis of a range of bilinguals moves beyond a simplistic divide between 'deficit' and 'dialect' views of these speech communities, showing that change proceeds unevenly across the language system and the social group, with feedback loops between social history, language learning, language structure, and identity.

Über den Autor

Devyani Sharma is Professor of Sociolinguistics at Queen Mary University of London. Her research examines dialect variation and change in postcolonial and diaspora situations, style variation, dialect typology, language attitudes, and bilingualism. She has an interest in developing new methods for studying language variation in contact settings, and in outreach work with a range of sectors to promote understanding of English diversity and language-based discrimination. Her co-edited works include The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes, English in the Indian Diaspora, and Research Methods in Linguistics.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction

PART I. ENGLISH IN INDIA

Chapter 2. Histories of English in India

Chapter 3. Errors or innovations?

Chapter 4. The article system

Chapter 5. The verbal system

Chapter 6. Dialect identity

PART II. COMPARING INDIA AND SINGAPORE

Chapter 7. Rates of change

Chapter 8. Grammatical universals?

Chapter 9. The role of input

Chapter 10. Style range and attitudinal change

Chapter 11. Summary and implications

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Erziehung & Bildung , Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9780195307504
ISBN-10:	019530750X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Sharma, Devyani
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	245 x 165 x 32 mm
Von/Mit:	Devyani Sharma
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.09.2023
Gewicht:	0,588 kg