Register Variation in Indian English

Balasubramanian, Chandrika

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“…Partly due to the increasing amount and quality of data, the description of this variety has only recently experienced what could be called a new boom, works such as Sedlatschek (2009) or Balasubramanian (2009) …”

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Pingali Sailaja, Indian English (Dialects of English). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. Pp x + 172. Hardback £60.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-2594-9, Paperback £19.99, ISBN 978-0-7486-2595-6.

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English Language and Linguistics

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Pingali Sailaja, Indian English (Dialects of English). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. Pp x + 172. Hardback £60.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-2594-9, Paperback £19.99, ISBN 978-0-7486-2595-6.

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“…Previous research on IndE provides various explanations on the expanded use of this variable. Balasubramanian (2009) suggests that particular stative verbs such as have, hear, understand, see, find, think, know, and feel occur more frequently in the progressive form in IndE, and out of all these, "the stative verb to have occurs in the progressive more frequently" (90). Trudgill and Hannah explain the related function of the progressive form in IndE for habitual and completed action (2002: 109).…”

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Performing Bombay and displaying stances

Muthiah¹

2012

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This article examines novel characters' use of creatively manufactured language in scripted dialogue, namely stylized Indian English (IndE) in Mistry's 2002 novel, Family Matters. Broadly, stylized IndE speech contributes to the characters' performance of localness, an evaluation that reviewers' commentary of the novel corroborate. However, by drawing on Ochs' model of direct and indirect indexicality to analyze the contextualized interactions of three groups of characters -Malpani, Shiv Sena drunk men, and Shiv Sena officers -I suggest that the characters more specifically combine stylized IndE features in different ways to display distinct stances. When assessed together with 1) sociohistorical details, 2) interlocutors' comments, and 3) narratorial interruptions, such stylized IndE speech indirectly indexes and shapes their nuanced social roles in the novel as different types of villains. Stylized IndE features are thus indeterminate resources, braided together with other semiotic resources, and enabling the characters to perform fluid, contextually situated meanings.

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“…Diachronically, an increase in β can be interpreted as increased syntactic grammaticalization over case-based grammatical systems (a move towards a more analytic over synthetic structure [18]): while analyses of Old versus Modern English have focused on movement from case markings to periphrastic syntactic constructions, in IE, grammatical changes are evident in new, increasingly grammaticalized syntactic collocational patterns [67][68][69]. Dialect focusing, we hypothesize, has a more distinct kernel lexicon [70], evidenced in a smaller β diachronically.…”

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Indian English Evolution and Focusing Visible Through Power Laws

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New dialect emergence and focusing in language contact settings is difficult to capture and date in terms of global structural dialect stabilization. This paper explores whether diachronic power law frequency distributions can provide evidence of dialect evolution and new dialect focusing, by considering the quantitative frequency characteristics of three diachronic Indian English (IE) corpora (1970s-2008). The results demonstrate that IE consistently follows power law frequency distributions and the corpora are each best fit by Mandelbrot's Law. Diachronic changes in the constants are interpreted as evidence of lexical and syntactic collocational focusing within the process of new dialect formation. Evidence of new dialect focusing is also visible through apparent time comparison of spoken and written data. Age and gender-separated sub-corpora of the most recent corpus show minimal deviation, providing apparent time evidence for emerging IE dialect stability. From these findings, we extend the interpretation of diachronic changes in the β coefficient-as indicative of changes in the degree of synthetic/analytic structure-so that β is also sensitive to grammaticalization and changes in collocational patterns.

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Register Variation in Indian English

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Pingali Sailaja, Indian English (Dialects of English). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. Pp x + 172. Hardback £60.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-2594-9, Paperback £19.99, ISBN 978-0-7486-2595-6.

Pingali Sailaja, Indian English (Dialects of English). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. Pp x + 172. Hardback £60.00, ISBN 978-0-7486-2594-9, Paperback £19.99, ISBN 978-0-7486-2595-6.

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Indian English Evolution and Focusing Visible Through Power Laws

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