Rajend Mesthrie

Language in Indenture (eBook, ePUB)

A Sociolinguistic History of Bhojpuri-Hindi in South Africa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1991. The transplantation of thousands of Indian workers to South Africa under indenture had far-reaching consequences for their linguistic traditions. This book traces the history of one of these Indic languages, Bhojpuri, and its roots and subsequent evolution and on to the events contributing to its demise.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429785788
• Artikelnr.: 55276061

Autorenporträt

Rajend Mesthrie

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue 1. The Historical Background 2. Dialects in Contact 3. The
Socio-Historical Setting of Language Shift 4. Language Contact and Language
Change 5. Language Obsolescence. Appendix A: A Skeleton Grammar of Indian
Bhojpuri. Appendix B: Samples. Appendix C: Questionnaires