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Foreigners and Foreign Languages in India
Author | : Shreesh Chaudhary |
Publisher | : Cambridge India |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 8175966289 |
India's natural wealth, knowledge, arts and crafts have attracted foreigners throughout its long history. It has had continuous cultural contact and trade with other countries and, in all this, India has been exposed to many foreign languages such as Arabic, Bactrian, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Persian, Portuguese, Turkish and in a certain sense, Sanskrit. Each of these languages went through a cycle, rising to the position of power and prestige, and eventually declining and yielding place to yet another language. In this process, all these languages interacted with the native languages of India and exchanged sounds, words, sentences, idioms and expressions, sometimes even giving birth to new languages. Foreigners and Foreign Languages in India: A Sociolinguistic History tells the story of this long and continuous history of the advent, learning, use, demise and debris of some foreign languages in India.
Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India
Author | : Lisa Mitchell |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253353017 |
The charged emotional politics of language and identity in India
California Indian Languages
Author | : Victor Golla |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2022-02 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0520389670 |
Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages—from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred Kroeber and his colleagues, to the extraordinary work of John P. Harrington and C. Hart Merriam. Golla also devotes chapters to the role of language in reconstructing prehistory, and to the intertwining of language and culture in pre-contact California societies, making this work, the first of its kind, an essential reference on California’s remarkable Indian languages.
Language and the Making of Modern India
Author | : Pritipuspa Mishra |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2020-01-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108425739 |
Explores the ways linguistic nationalism has enabled and deepened the reach of All-India nationalism. This title is also available as Open Access.
Origin of the Earth and Moon
Author | : Shirley Silver |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816521395 |
This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages.
Framing the Nation
Author | : Ajanta Sircar |
Publisher | : Seagull Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781906497309 |
As films like 'Slumdog Millionaire' attest, India on film is quickly growing beyond the Bollywood images that frequently spring to mind. In 'Framing the Nation', Sircar maps the distance that film theory has traveled in the Anglo-American academy and India in recent decades.
The Mesoamerican Indian Languages
Author | : Jorge A. Suarez |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1983-04-14 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521296694 |
At least a hundred indigenous Indian languages are known to have been spoken in Mesoamerica, but it is only in the past fifty years that many of them have been adequately described. Professor Suárez draws together this considerable mass of scholarship in a general survey that will provide an invaluable source of reference.