Full Description
Diasporic populations offer unique opportunities for the study of language variation and change. This volume is the first collection of sociolinguistic studies of English use across the historically complex and widely dispersed Indian diaspora. The contributions describe particular sociohistorical contexts (the UK, Fiji, South Africa, Singapore, and the Caribbean) and then use this rich empirical base to examine diverse questions in theory and method, such as the extent to which different settings see different or similar linguistic outcomes; the role of community structures, transnational ties, attitudes, and identity; reasons for differing rates of change, adaptation, and focussing; and the relevance of endonormative stabilization of Asian Englishes. These themes do not simply further our understandings of diaspora. They can ultimately feed into wider theoretical questions in language contact studies, including universals, selection and adaptation of traits, and interactions between social contact, identity, and language change.
Contents
1. List of tables; 2. List of figures; 3. Introduction (by Hundt, Marianne); 4. Indo-Trinidadian speech: An investigation into a popular stereotype surrounding pitch (by Leung, Glenda); 5. Identity, ethnicity and fine phonetic detail: An acoustic phonetic analysis of syllable-initial /t/ in Glaswegian girls of Pakistani heritage (by Alam, Farhana); 6. East African Indian twice migrants in Britain: Phonological variation across generations (by Rathore, Claudia); 7. Sociophonetics and the Indian diaspora: The NURSE vowel and other selected features in South African Indian English (by Mesthrie, Rajend); 8. Imperfectives in Singapore's Indian community (by Leimgruber, Jakob); 9. Zero articles in Indian Englishes: a comparison of primary and secondary diaspora situations (by Hundt, Marianne); 10. A lesser globalisation: A sociolexical study of Indian Englishes in diaspora, with a primary focus on South Africa (by Mesthrie, Rajend); 11. Indo-Fijian English: Linguistic diaspora or endonormative stabilization? (by Zipp, Lena); 12. Transnational flows, language variation, and ideology (by Sharma, Devyani); 13. Index
