Language Variation in South Asia
Language Variation in South Asia by William Bright, published by Oxford University Press in 1990, explores the diverse linguistic landscape of the region. This edition comprises 169 pages and is presented in English. The book features a collection of essays that delve into various aspects of South Asian linguistics, highlighting the complexity of regional and social dialects, language families, and writing systems.
Readers will find that the essays address topics such as social dialects, structural borrowing, and the interplay between literary and colloquial language standards. Bright’s work offers a sociolinguistic perspective, combining both descriptive and historical analyses to examine the role of language in South Asian culture, tracing its evolution from the ancient Indus Valley civilization to contemporary times. This collection reflects Bright’s extensive research and provides valuable insights into the linguistic diversity of South Asia.
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South Asia presents the linguist with a bewildering variety of regional dialects, social dialects, formal and informal registers, literary standards, languages, writing systems, and language families. Written over a period of more than twenty years, these essays by a leading authority on South Asian language cover a broad range of topics in South Asian linguistics. The essays address social dialect, structural borrowing, areal linguistics, the relation between literary and colloquial standards, and the role of written language in South Asian culture from the times of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Offering a sociolinguistic approach, and encompassing both descriptive and historical studies, this collection of twelve of Bright’s most important essays reflects his extensive research on the linguistics of South Asia.
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