Balasubramanian Register Variation in Indian English

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-8903-2
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 37, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Corpus Linguistics

Register Variation in Indian English constitutes the first large-scale empirical investigation of an international variety of English. Using a combination of the corpus compiled for this project and relevant sections of ICE-India as its database, this work tests existing descriptions and characterizations of English in India, and provides the first empirical account of register variation in Indian English (or indeed, any international variety of English). Included in this survey are linguistic features that have been examined before and others that have not. From an empirical standpoint, it comments on the process of Indianization of the English used in India. The book will be of interest to readers beyond specialists of Indian English as it is one of very few studies to undertake a large-scale corpus analysis for the purpose of dialect research. The book provides a model on which future studies of international Englishes can be based.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balasubramanian, Chandrika

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures
List of tables
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Literature review
Chapter 3. Corpus design and methodology
Chapter 4. Lexical and grammatical features in spoken and written Indian English
Chapter 5. Register variation: Lexical features
Chapter 6. Register variation: Grammatical features
Chapter 7. Conclusion
References
Appendix
Author index
Topic index