Languages of India
Author: Gopal Haldar
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 228
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Author: Gopal Haldar
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 228
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 309
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Shreesh Chaudhary
Publisher: Cambridge India
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 8175966289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndia's natural wealth, knowledge, arts and crafts have attracted foreigners throughout its long history. It has had continuous cultural contact and trade with other countries and, in all this, India has been exposed to many foreign languages such as Arabic, Bactrian, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Persian, Portuguese, Turkish and in a certain sense, Sanskrit. Each of these languages went through a cycle, rising to the position of power and prestige, and eventually declining and yielding place to yet another language. In this process, all these languages interacted with the native languages of India and exchanged sounds, words, sentences, idioms and expressions, sometimes even giving birth to new languages. Foreigners and Foreign Languages in India: A Sociolinguistic History tells the story of this long and continuous history of the advent, learning, use, demise and debris of some foreign languages in India.
Author: Gopal Haldar
Publisher: NBT India
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9788123729367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lisa Mitchell
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0253353017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe charged emotional politics of language and identity in India
Author: Sir George Abraham Grierson
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 174
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jaskiran Bedi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2019-08-13
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1000576868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the relationship between the English language and growth – economic and inclusive – in India. It explores why English continues to be the language of aspiration long after Independence. With the second largest English-speaking population in the world today, India is testimonial to how a linguistic legacy continues to cast a long shadow on its contemporary discourse in the economic arena. The volume: Explores how English language proficiency constitutes as human capital. Draws in the latest India Human Development Survey data. Investigates the relationship between the language and economic indicators such as wages, household income and state growth. Purther investigates the role of English language in the inclusivity of growth. Provides a snapshot of the pedagogy of English in the Indian education system. First of its kind in scope, this volume will be of great interest to scholars of economics, education, sociolinguistics, development studies, politics and sociology. It will also be of great interest to the general reader.
Author: William Wilson Hunter
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 246
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jenny L. Davis
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2018-04-17
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0816538158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Beatrice Medicine Award In south-central Oklahoma and much of “Indian Country,” using an Indigenous language is colloquially referred to as “talking Indian.” Among older Chickasaw community members, the phrase is used more often than the name of the specific language, Chikashshanompa’ or Chickasaw. As author Jenny L. Davis explains, this colloquialism reflects the strong connections between languages and both individual and communal identities when talking as an Indian is intimately tied up with the heritage language(s) of the community, even as the number of speakers declines. Today a tribe of more than sixty thousand members, the Chickasaw Nation was one of the Native nations removed from their homelands to Oklahoma between 1837 and 1838. According to Davis, the Chickasaw’s dispersion from their lands contributed to their disconnection from their language over time: by 2010 the number of Chickasaw speakers had radically declined to fewer than seventy-five speakers. In Talking Indian, Davis—a member of the Chickasaw Nation—offers the first book-length ethnography of language revitalization in a U.S. tribe removed from its homelands. She shows how in the case of the Chickasaw Nation, language programs are intertwined with economic growth that dramatically reshape the social realities within the tribe. She explains how this economic expansion allows the tribe to fund various language-learning forums, with the additional benefit of creating well-paid and socially significant roles for Chickasaw speakers. Davis also illustrates how language revitalization efforts are impacted by the growing trend of tribal citizens relocating back to the Nation.
Author: Ajanta Sircar
Publisher: Seagull Books
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781906497309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs films like 'Slumdog Millionaire' attest, India on film is quickly growing beyond the Bollywood images that frequently spring to mind. In 'Framing the Nation', Sircar maps the distance that film theory has traveled in the Anglo-American academy and India in recent decades.