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English in the Indian Diaspora.
Migrant groups maintain ties to their region of origin to different degrees, but this variable factor has not been consistently integrated into sociolinguistic studies of diaspora communities. A balanced consideration of transnational interaction, as well as the social valuation of such ties, is nee...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2014.
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| Colección: | Varieties of English Around the World.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- English in the Indian Diaspora; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of tables; List of figures; 1. Introduction; Acknowledgements; References; 2. Indo-Trinidadian speech: An investigation into a popular stereotype surrounding pitch; 1. Introduction; 2. Historical, social, and linguistic background of the Indo-Trinidadian population; 3. Previous studies of Indo-Trinidadian speech; 4. An investigation into a popular stereotype surrounding pitch; 5. Method; 6. Results; 7. Discussion; 8. Conclusion and outlook; Acknowledgements; References; Appendix.
- 3. Identity, ethnicity and fine phonetic detail: An acoustic phonetic analysis of syllable-initial /1. Introduction; 2. Methodology; 3. Results; 4. Discussion; 5. Conclusions; References; 4. East African Indian twice migrants in Britain: Phonological variation across generations; 1. Introduction; 2. Socio-historical background; 3. Postvocalic /r/; 4. Method; 5. Results; 6. Discussion; 7. Conclusion; References; 5. Sociophonetics and the Indian diaspora; 1. Introduction; 2. Background to SAIE; 3. Some salient features of SAIE phonetics in relation to IE.
- 4. A case study: Variation in the NURSE vowel among younger SAIE speakers5. Conclusion; References; 6. Imperfectives in Singapore's Indian community; 1. Introduction; 2. Historical background; 3. Singapore's Indian community; 4. Ethnic variation in Singapore English; 5. Aspect in English, Sinitic, and Dravidian; 6. Methodology; 7. Results; 8. Discussion; References; 7. Zero articles in Indian Englishes: A comparison of primary and secondary diaspora situations; 1. Introduction; 2. The Indian diaspora in Fiji and the secondary Fiji-Indian Diaspora; 3. Data and data retrieval.
- 4. Results and discussion5. Conclusion; References; Appendix; 8. A lesser globalisation: A sociolexical study of Indian Englishes in diaspora, with a primary focu; 1. Introduction; 2. Historical considerations: Layers of diaspora history; 3. Themes in comparative studies of second diaspora lexis; 4. Cultural aspects of lexical retention and variation; 5. Conclusion; References; 9. Indo-Fijian English: Linguistic diaspora or endonormative stabilization?; 1. Introduction; 2. Indians in Fiji
- socio-history and sociolinguistic situation; 3. Data and methodology; 4. Analysis and results.
- 5. ConclusionReferences; 10. Transnational flows, language variation, and ideology; 1. Introduction; 2. Transnational communities; 3. Methodology: Measuring transnational activity and language variation; 4. Transnational activity in the present community; 5. Transnational activity and language variation; 6. Transnational ideologies and language variation; 7. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Index.