Managing multilingualism in India : political and linguistic manifestations
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Managing multilingualism in India : political and linguistic manifestations
(Language and development, v. 8)
Sage Publications, 2001
- : US-Hb
- : India-Hb
Available at 8 libraries
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  Iwate
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references(p.[226]-233) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
`This book offers a clear, eloquent account of various facets of multilingualism in India. It addresses the challenge of managing, maintaining and promoting multilingualism in this case, offering a wealth of information on topics ranging from acquisition of multilingualism in family, social and professional settings, multiple identities, educational policies and language modernisation, to language conflict, minority-language maintenance and language mixing. The eighth in a series of excellent SAGE publications on language and development, the book presents a fine collection of the author's published and unpublished papers.... The analysis presented is insightful from both linguistic and scholastic viewpoints... this book is an invaluable resource for linguists, social and political scientists, policy-makers and those concerned with cultural studies' - Tej K Bhatia, Multilingual & Multicultural Development
This book addresses the sociolinguistic scene in India and explores the maintenance of multilingual speech communities and its promotion; progress and exclusion and how this can be avoided; and looks at what multilingualism does to linguistic purity.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: FUNCTIONING MULTILINGUALISM
Introduction
The Multilingual Scene
Trilingualism through Schooling
Tribal Bilingualism
Role of the State, the Community and the Individual in Language Maintenance
Challenges and Responses to Language Survival
The Colonial Language in Multilingualism and the Process of Modernization
PART TWO: PLANNING MULTILINGUALISM
Multilingualism and the Constitution
Multilingual Development
Planned Language Development
Emergence of Dominant Languages
PART THREE: USING CODES IN MULTILINGUALISM
The Nature and Function of Bilingual Mixing
Lexical Insertion in a Mixed Language
Factors in Code Mixing
Linguistic Determinants of Convergence
Direction of Convergence
Distinguishing Features of Convergence
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