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Language in the Indian Diaspora: Sociolinguistic Perspectives
Authors:
Rajend Mesthrie and Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi (editors)
ISBN:
9789395474900
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2026
Pages:
274 with 12 b/w illustrations, 37 b/w tables, and 7 b/w maps
Size:
18 x 26 x 3 cm
Weight:
743 grams
Price:
INR
2495
2246.00
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About the Book
Examines the role of language in shaping the Indian diaspora experience.
• Brings together a wide range of Indian languages and diasporic contexts.• Has a stronger and more up-to-date sociolinguistic focus than has been the case in previous collections.• Explores repertoire changes in diaspora, as well as migration and language resilience.Rajend Mesthrie and Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi bring together an international range of scholars to explore the sociolinguistic outcomes of multilingualism and contact involving the Indian diaspora. The collection presents twelve rich case studies of Indian diaspora languages in South Asia, East Asia, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and the USA. It examines different forms of displacement in response to a wide range of historical, social, technological and geopolitical developments: internal displacement and transcontinental migration, colonial and contemporary migrations, urban and rural migrations, migration of skilled and unskilled workers, and migration of major and minor Indian languages. By comparing the sociolinguistic consequences of migration in diverse contexts,
Language in the Indian Diaspora
examines the role of language practices in shaping local and global mobile contexts. In doing so, it develops our understanding of the processes of language use and language change in the emerging arena of migration studies.
About the Authors
Rajend Mesthrie
Rajend Mesthrie is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Senior Research Scholar at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He was Head of the Linguistics Section (1998-2009), and holder of an NRF research chair in migration, language, and social change. He was President of the Linguistics Society of Southern Africa (2002-2009) and President of the International Congress of Linguists (2013-2018). He is an elected honorary life member of SALALS (Southern African Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Society) and the LSA (Linguistic Society of America). He is a past co-editor of English Today (2008-2012).
Amongst his book publications are
Language in Indenture: A Sociolinguistic History of Bhojpuri-Hindi in South Africa
(1992, reprinted 2019),
Introducing Sociolinguistics
(with Swann, Deumert & Leap, 2009),
Language in South Africa
(ed., 2002) and
Youth Language Practices & Urban Language Contact in Africa
(ed. with Hurst-Harosh & Brookes, 2021).
Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi
Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi is Professor and Head, Dept. of Linguistics at the Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute, Pune (India). She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Reading (UK) as a Felix Scholar. Her research has primarily included the sociolinguistic aspects of language contact, dialect variation and change, and linguistic diaspora. She was coordinator of the Special Assistance Programme awarded to Deccan College by the University Grants Commission of India (2011-16) to conduct research on ‘Language Contact’. Since 2017, she is heading a joint project of the Deccan College to create a digital, annotated database of regional and social variation in Marathi.
Editorial Reviews
“Mesthrie and Kulkarni-Joshi are highly respected scholars in South Asian sociolinguistics. It is a pleasure to see their new production on diversity and diaspora in South Asian languages and the great geographic range of communities covered. The volume makes an excellent contribution to South Asian linguistics and to diaspora studies.”
—Hans Heinrich Hock, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“A panoramic coverage of life stories, social histories, beliefs, past memories, and speech practices of the ‘second’ and the ‘third’ Indian diaspora. The 12 chapters critically engage with a variety of diaspora formations, free or forced, arising out of internal and overseas migration.”
—Shobha Satyanath, University of Delhi
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