LEADER 05334nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910463152103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89490-4 010 $a90-272-7309-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000280415 035 $a(EBL)1047924 035 $a(OCoLC)818866947 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000757041 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12286800 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757041 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10754155 035 $a(PQKB)10428909 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1047924 035 $a(PPN)182340783 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1047924 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10615101 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420740 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000280415 100 $a20120808d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe syntax of spoken Indian English$b[electronic resource] /$fby Claudia Lange 210 $aPhiladelphia $cJohn Benjamins Pub. Co.$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 225 0 $aVarieties of English around the world ;$vv. G45 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-272-4905-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe Syntax of Spoken Indian English; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of figures and tables; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1 English in India or Indian English?; 1.2 Aims and scope of this study; 1.3 Structure; Chapter 2. Conceptual background; 2.1 New Englishes and outer circles; 2.1.1 Ideology and terminology: From English to Englishes; 2.1.2 The legacy of Braj Kachru; 2.1.3 "The Kachru catch"; 2.1.4 The Dynamic Model; 2.1.5 Outlook; 2.2 The native speaker: An elusive concept 327 $a2.2.1 The native speaker and the discourse of hegemony2.2.2 The native speaker and linguistic variation; 2.2.3 Outlook; 2.3 Contact-induced language change; 2.3.1 Introduction; 2.3.2 Mechanisms of contact-induced language change; 2.4 Norms and standards; 2.4.1 Norms and the (post)colonial speech community; 2.4.2 Spoken and written standards; Chapter 3. Multilingualism in India; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Typological survey; 3.2.1 Patterns of multilingualism; 3.2.2 South Asia as a sprachbund; 3.2.3 South Asia as a discourse area; 3.2.4 South Asia as a sociolinguistic area 327 $a3.3 English as an Indian language3.3.1 Introduction; 3.3.2 The Indian communicative space; 3.3.3 Outlook; Chapter 4. The syntax of spoken Indian English; 4.1 Introduction; 4.1.1 Corpus-based approaches to IndE; 4.1.2 ICE and ICE-India; 4.1.3 The speakers; 4.1.4 The data; 4.1.5 Discourse-pragmatic sentence structure; 4.2 Non-initial existential there; 4.2.1 Definition; 4.2.2 Existentials: Corpus evidence; 4.2.3 Non-initial existential there in ICE-India; 4.2.4 The canonical existential in ICE-India; 4.2.5 Initial and non-initial existential constructions in spoken IndE: Speaker variables 327 $a4.2.6 Explanatory parameters4.3 Topicalization; 4.3.1 Definition; 4.3.2 Topicalization in ICE-India and ICE-GB: Form and frequency; 4.3.3 Topicalization in ICE-India: Contexts and function; 4.3.4 Preposing of non-arguments; 4.3.5 Unlinked topic constructions; 4.3.6 Explanatory parameters; 4.4 Dislocation; 4.4.1 Definition; 4.4.2 Left dislocation: Form and function; 4.4.3 Right dislocation: Form and function; 4.4.4 Dislocation: Corpus evidence; 4.4.5 Explanatory parameters; 4.5 Cleft constructions; 4.5.1 Definition; 4.5.2 Clefts in ICE-GB; 4.5.3 Clefts in ICE-India 327 $a4.5.4 Explanatory parameters4.6 Utterance modifiers; 4.6.1 Focus markers: Only and itself; 4.6.2 Invariant tags; Chapter 5. Conclusion; 5.1 Indian English as a contact language; 5.2 Multilingual competence: The norms of spoken Indian English; 5.3 From norms to standards: Indian English in the 21st century; References; Author index; Language index; Subject index 330 $aThis book offers an in-depth analysis of several features of spoken Indian English that are generally considered as 'typical', but have never before been studied empirically. Drawing on authentic spoken data from the International Corpus of English, Indian component, the book focuses on the domain of discourse organization and examines the form, function and distribution of invariant tags such as isn't it and no/na, non-initial existential there, focus markers only and itself, topicalization and left-dislocation. By focusing on multilingual speakers' i 410 0$aVarieties of English Around the World 606 $aEnglish language$xSpoken English$zIndia 606 $aEnglish language$zIndia$xSyntax 606 $aLanguages in contact$zIndia 606 $aInterference (Linguistics) 606 $aSociolinguistics$zIndia 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish language$xSpoken English 615 0$aEnglish language$xSyntax. 615 0$aLanguages in contact 615 0$aInterference (Linguistics) 615 0$aSociolinguistics 676 $a427/.954 700 $aLange$b Claudia$0908313 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463152103321 996 $aThe syntax of spoken Indian English$92031484 997 $aUNINA