Contemporary Indian English : variation and change /
Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change offers the first comprehensive description of Indian English and its emerging regional standard in a corpus-linguistic framework. Drawing on a wealth of authentic spoken and written data from India (including the Kolhapur Corpus and the International...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2009.
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Colección: | Varieties of English around the world. General series ;
v. 38. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change offers the first comprehensive description of Indian English and its emerging regional standard in a corpus-linguistic framework. Drawing on a wealth of authentic spoken and written data from India (including the Kolhapur Corpus and the International Corpus of English), this book explores the dynamics of variation and change in the vocabulary and grammar of contemporary Indian English. The aims are to document the extent of lexical and grammatical nativization at the beginning of the twenty-first century and compare contemporary Indian English. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 363 pages) : map |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027290120 9027290121 |