Professor Braj Kachru (b. 1932) has pioneered, shaped and defined the scholarly field of world Englishes. He is the founder and co-editor of World Englishes, the associate editor of the Oxford Companion to the English Language and contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language. His research on world Englishes, the Kashmiri language and literature, and theoretical and applied studies on language and society has resulted in more than 25 authored and edited volumes and more than 100 research papers, review articles, and reviews.The third volume of these Collected Works details Kachru's key studies from the 19070s to 1990s in the areas of linguistics, multilingualism and language contact, including some of his work on language in India and South Asia.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-02-26
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781441157782
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)

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Språkvetenskap och lingvistik inom Språk och ordböcker

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Professor Braj Kachru is Center for Advanced Study Professor of Linguistics and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Emeritus, USAProfessor Jonathan J. Webster is Director of The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

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AcknowledgementsEditor's Introduction1. Linguistic schizophrenia and language census: a note on the Indian situation (1977)2. Toward structuring code-mixing: an Indian perspective (1978)3. Code-mixing as a communicative strategy in India (1978)4. Bilingualism (1981)5. The bilingual's linguistic repertoire (1982)6. Language policy in South Asia (1982)7. Institutionalized second-language varieties (1985)8. Standards, codification and sociolinguistic realism: the English language in the outer circle (1985)9. Current issues in bilingualism: an update of directions in research (1985)10. The bilingual's creativity (1986)11. Cultural contact and literary creativity in a multilingual society (1992)12. Multilingualism and multiculturalism (1992)13. Speech community (1994/1998)BibliographyIndex