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Language in South Asia / edited by Braj B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru, and S.N. Sridhar.

Title
Language in South Asia / edited by Braj B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru, and S.N. Sridhar.
Publication
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Kachru, Braj B.
  • Kachru, Yamuna
  • Sridhar, S. N.
Description
xxiv, 608 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
"This volume presents an overview of the language situation in this vast subcontinent in a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context. Language in South Asia is an accessible interdisciplinary book for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language planning and South Asian studies."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Sociolinguistics > South Asia
  • Multilingualism > South Asia
  • Language planning > South Asia
  • Indic philology
  • South Asia > Languages
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 534-587) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Language history, families, and typology -- Languages and their functions -- Sanskrit and traditions of language study -- Multilingualism, contact, and convergence -- Orality, literacy, and writing systems -- Language conflicts -- Language and modernization -- Language and discourse -- Language and identity -- Languages in diaspora.
ISBN
  • 9780521781411 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 0521781418 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9780521786539 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0521786533 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2006037011
OCLC
  • 76064675
  • SCSB-12226315
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library