36.2538, Books: Language in the Indian Diaspora: Mesthrie and Kulkarni-Joshi (eds.) (2024)

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Date: 27-Aug-2025
From: Carla Hepburn [carla.hepburn at eup.ed.ac.uk]
Subject: Language in the Indian Diaspora: Mesthrie and Kulkarni-Joshi (eds.) (2024)


Title: Language in the Indian Diaspora
Subtitle: Sociolinguistic Perspectives
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
           http://www.edinburghuniversitypress.com
Book URL:
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-language-in-the-indian-diaspora.html

Editor(s): Rajend Mesthrie, Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi

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Abstract:

Rajend Mesthrie and Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi bring together an
international range of scholars to explore the sociolinguistic
outcomes of multilingualism and contact involving the Indian diaspora.
The collection presents twelve rich case studies of Indian diaspora
languages in South Asia, East Asia, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and
the USA. It examines different forms of displacement in response to a
wide range of historical, social, technological and geopolitical
developments: internal displacement and transcontinental migration,
colonial and contemporary migrations, urban and rural migrations,
migration of skilled and unskilled workers, and migration of major and
minor Indian languages. By comparing the sociolinguistic consequences
of migration in diverse contexts, Language in the Indian Diaspora
examines the role of language practices in shaping local and global
mobile contexts. In doing so, it develops our understanding of the
processes of language use and language change in the emerging arena of
migration studies.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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