Language Variation in South Asia - William Bright

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Language Variation in South Asia

By: William Bright

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Hardcover | 4 October 1990

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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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`The range of Bright's interests with regard to South Asian languages is well illustrated in the book ... In reading over these papers one is struck by several qualities of Bright's writing. One of these is the meticulousness of Bright's descriptive studies of Dravidian linguistic systems.' Journal of the American Oriental Society `for beginners in South Asian linguistics and sociolinguistics, this collection has great historical value, since it contains the origins of ideas now considered standard and descriptions used as reference points in both of these fields' Language `The range of Bright's interests with regard to South Asian languages is well illustrated in the book.` `In reading over these papers one is struck by several qualities of Bright's writing. One of these is the meticulousness of Bright's descriptive studies of Dravidian linguistic systems.` `...this book serves a desirable function in gathering together those of Bright's papers that detail his thinking on the role of variation within the South Asian linguistic landscape.` `The work will be of particular interest to Dravidianists, as well as to students of other South Asian language families whose research has an areal dimension or incorporates facets of socially conditioned variation.` Journal of the American Oriental Society

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Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Reference, Dictionaries & Guides Linguistics Philosophy of Language Language Learning & Teaching Religion & Beliefs

Linguistic Change in Some Indian Caste Dialects	p. 3
Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Change with A. K. Ramanujan	p. 11
Dravidian Metaphony	p. 19
Language, Social Stratification, and Cognitive Orientation	p. 37
Complex Verb Forms in Colloquial Tamil with J. Lindenfeld	p. 44
Phonological Rules in Literary and Colloquial Kannada	p. 65
Hindi Numerals	p. 74
The Dravidian Enunciative Vowel	p. 86
How Not to Decipher the Indus Valley Inscriptions	p. 118
Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ancient Dravidian	p. 124
Written and Spoken Language in South Asia	p. 130
Bibliography	p. 149
Index	p. 163
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