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Indian English : texts and interpretation /
Indian English, or rather, the forms of English used in India, have long been a topic of interest for laymen and scholars. For generations, the 'exotic' nature of the transplanted language was commented on, often ridiculed as a matter of unintentional comic. It was only from the 1960s onwa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©1998.
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| Colección: | Varieties of English around the world. Text series ;
v. 7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Indian English, or rather, the forms of English used in India, have long been a topic of interest for laymen and scholars. For generations, the 'exotic' nature of the transplanted language was commented on, often ridiculed as a matter of unintentional comic. It was only from the 1960s onwards that the local forms of English were recognized for what they are - adaptations of the world language to local needs, and varying to an enormous degree, depending on the speakers' (and writers') education and the uses they make of the language. This acknowledgement came mainly from abroad (and still does). |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 148 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-148) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027275547 9027275548 1283358336 9781283358330 9786613358332 6613358339 |
| ISSN: | 0172-7362 ; |