Indian English, Functions and FormsThis Book Examines Two Inter-Related Linguistic Phenomenon, English Bilingualism In India And Indian English. The Study Is Based On The Use And Ugage Of English Among The Educated Bilinguals. |
Contents
Foreword | 1 |
Bilingualism and Language Use | 14 |
English Bilingualism in India | 29 |
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A A A A acceptable American English analysis bilinguals British English BrS AmS BrS and AmS Chapter CIEFL considered conversing corpus DC Scores 000 Delhi deviations dialect diglossia dominant language educated Indian bilinguals English bilingualism English in India English language example expressions favour Fishman formal forms functions guage Gumperz Hindi Hindi areas Hindi speakers Hyderabad Indian English Indian languages investigation Kachru kind of English language attitudes language choice language shift language(s letter lish major Marathi mother tongue MT/FL native speaker groups native varieties non-Hindi speakers non-native varieties number of subjects oral communication OTHR phonological preferred present questionnaire regional language REGL request responses sample second language situations social Sociolinguistics speak speech community speech repertoires style stylistic syntactic Table three informant groups tion University usage varieties of English verb Washington D.C. write written communication Zealand English