23.5108, Books: The Syntax of Spoken Indian English: Lange

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Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:58:02
From: Paul Peranteau [paul at benjamins.com]
Subject: The Syntax of Spoken Indian English: Lange

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 Title: The Syntax of Spoken Indian English 
Series Title: Varieties of English Around the World G45  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/veaw.g45 

Author: Claudia Lange

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027273093 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
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Abstract:

This book offers an in-depth analysis of several features of spoken Indian
English that are generally considered as ‘typical’, but have never before been
studied empirically. Drawing on authentic spoken data from the International
Corpus of English, Indian component, the book focuses on the domain of
discourse organization and examines the form, function and distribution of
invariant tags such as isn’t and no/na, non-initial existential there, focus
markers only and itself, topicalization and left-dislocation. By focusing on
multilingual speakers’ interactions, the study demonstrates conclusively that
spoken Indian English bears all the hallmarks of a vibrant contact language,
testifying to a pan-South Asian ‘grammar of culture’ which becomes apparent in
contact-induced language change in spoken Indian English. The book will be
highly relevant for anyone interested in postcolonial varieties of English,
contact linguistics, standardization, and discourse-pragmatic sentence
structure.

Linguistic Field(s): Bi- & Multilingualism
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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