Title: Indian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century
Subtitle: Unity and Diversity in Lexicon and Morphosyntax
Series Title: Elements in World Englishes
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://cambridge.org/9781009323789

author: Sven Leuckert
author: Claudia Lange
author: Tobias Bernaisch
author: Asya Yurchenko
Abstract:

English fulfils important intra- and international functions in 21st century India. However, the country's size in terms of area, population, and linguistic diversity means that completely uniform developments in Indian English (IndE) are unlikely. Using sophisticated corpus-linguistic and statistical methods, this Element explores the unity and diversity of IndE by providing studies of selected lexical and morphosyntactic features that characterise Indian English(es) in the 21st century. The findings indicate a degree of incipient 'supralocalisation', i.e. a spread of features beyond their place of origin, cutting through the typological Indo-Aryan vs. Dravidian divide.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng)