Language, Memory and Remembering: Explorations in Historical Sociolinguistics - Hardcover

Ramanathan, Vaidehi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815358873 ISBN 13: 9780815358879

Publisher: Routledge India, 2018

Synopsis

This volume explores issues of memory, remembering and language in late colonial India. It is the first systematic historical sociolinguistic study of English private and public citizens who lived in and/or worked for India and the Indian cause from the 1920s to the 1940s. While some of the English have lived as common citizens and were committed to India, their voices and contributions have remained on the margins of Indian collective memory. This book offers microhistorical readings of extended language forms generally underexplored in sociolinguistics (such as letters, telegrams, missives, and oral histories) to reorient facets of individual memories, lives, and endeavours against larger officialised understandings of the past.

Using previously unpublished corpus of archival material and interviews with English private citizens from that period, this volume on historical sociolinguistics will be of interest to scholars and researchers of language and linguistics, South Asian studies, post-colonial literary studies, culture studies, and modern history.

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About the Author

Vaidehi Ramanathan is Professor of Applied Sociolinguistics at the University of California, Davis, USA. Her research interests span two broad domains: language policy and language and health. She is interested in all issues pertaining literacy and teacher-education as well as disabilities and dementia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815358873
• ISBN 13: 9780815358879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 110