Managing Multilingualism in India: Political and Linguistic Manifestations`This book offers a clear, eloquent account of various facets of multilingualism in India. It addresses the challenge of managing, maintaining and promoting multilingualism in this case, offering a wealth of information on topics ranging from acquisition of multilingualism in family, social and professional settings, multiple identities, educational policies and language modernisation, to language conflict, minority-language maintenance and language mixing. The eighth in a series of excellent Sage publications on language and development, the book presents a fine collection of the author's published and unpublished papers.... The analysis presented is insightful from both linguistic and scholastic viewpoints... this book is an invaluable resource for linguists, social and political scientists, policy-makers and those concerned with cultural studies' - Tej K Bhatia, Multilingual & Multicultural Development This book addresses the sociolinguistic scene in India and explores the maintenance of multilingual speech communities and its promotion; progress and exclusion and how this can be avoided; and looks at what multilingualism does to linguistic purity. |
Contents
Introduction by the Series Editor | 9 |
Acknowledgements | 30 |
Trilingualism through Schooling | 49 |
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acquired administration areas become bilingualism caste Census cent chapter choice competence Constitution continue convergence cultural dialect direction dominant language economic elite English equality example fact factors figures formal functional give given grammatical guage higher Hindi ideas identity ideology Indian languages individual Indo-Aryan languages institutions Kannada knowledge learning less lexical linguistic literacy maintenance majority material meanings medium mentioned minority languages mixing modern mother tongue multilingualism nature noted objective official language planning political population position possible question rationality reference regional language relation relative religious role Sanskrit schools second language semantic sense shared shift situation social society speakers speaking standard status Tamil taught third language tion traditional tribal languages universal Urdu variety verb
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Sociolinguistics: The Essential Readings Christine Bratt Paulston,G. Richard Tucker No preview available - 2003 |
Imagining Multilingual Schools Ofelia García,Tove Skutnabb-Kangas,Maria E. Torres-Guzmán Limited preview - 2006 |