Book notice

[Harold F. Schiffman]

Forwarded from Linguist-List,

New Ethnicities and Language Use

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 http://www.palgrave.com

Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403998949

Author: Roxy Harris, King's College, University of London

The children and grandchildren of South Asian migrants to the UK are
living out British identities which go largely unrecognized, as dominant
voices both inside and outside their communities seek to foreground and
hold in place alternative positionings of them as primarily Sikhs, Hindus
and Muslims or Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis or Panjabi, Gujarati,
Hindi, and Urdu speakers. This book emphasizes their everyday low-key
Britishness, albeit a Britishness with new inflections. It is this
sensibility that marks them as 'Brasians'.

http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-2283.html

Hardback: ISBN: 1403998949 Pages: 224 Price: U.K.  45

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