Vaidehi Ramanathan

Language, Memory and Remembering

Explorations in Historical Sociolinguistics

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores issues of memory, remembering and language in late colonial India. It is the first systematic historical sociolinguistic study of English private and public citizens who lived in and/or worked for India and the Indian cause between 1920s to the 1940s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 110
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780815358879
• ISBN-10: 0815358873
• Artikelnr.: 54399845

Autorenporträt

Vaidehi Ramanathan is Professor of Applied Sociolinguistics at the University of California, Davis, USA. Her research interests span two broad domains: language policy and language and health. She is interested in all issues pertaining literacy and teacher-education as well as disabilities and dementia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Memory, Remembering, and Genres: Reconstructing 'Historicity'
1. Reconstructing Social Contexts from Unusual Linguistic Texts:
Microhistory and Historicity 2. Epistles and Telegrams: Locating English
Public Citizens 3. Oral Histories and Photographs: Locating English Private
Citizens 4. Experimenting with Metafiction: The Case of Charles Andrews and
the Reconstruction of a Time and Person 5. Reconstructing 'Historicity':
Lessons for the Historical Sociolinguist