Language in Indenture: A Sociolinguistic History of Bhojpuri-Hindi in South Africa

ISBN-13: 9781138352896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 342 str.

Rajend Mesthrie

Opis

Originally published in 1991. The transplantation of thousands of Indian workers to South Africa under indenture had far-reaching consequences for their linguistic traditions. This book traces the history of one of these Indic languages, Bhojpuri, and its roots and subsequent evolution and on to the events contributing to its demise.

Spis treści

Prologue 1. The Historical Background 2. Dialects in Contact 3. The Socio-Historical Setting of Language Shift 4. Language Contact and Language Change 5. Language Obsolescence. Appendix A: A Skeleton Grammar of Indian Bhojpuri. Appendix B: Samples. Appendix C: Questionnaires

O autorze

Rajend Mesthrie