Language, Memory and Remembering - Explorations in Historical Sociolinguistics

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 between 1920s to the 1940s.

List of contents

Introduction: Memory, Remembering, and Genres: Reconstructing ‘Historicity’ 1. Reconstructing Social Contexts from Unusual Linguistic Texts: Microhistory and Historicity 2. Epistles and Telegrams: Locating English Public Citizens 3. Oral Histories and Photographs: Locating English Private Citizens 4. Experimenting with Metafiction: The Case of Charles Andrews and the Reconstruction of a Time and Person 5. Reconstructing ‘Historicity’: Lessons for the Historical Sociolinguist

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.

Summary

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 between 1920s to the 1940s.

Product details

• Authors: Vaidehi Ramanathan, Vaidehi (University of California Ramanathan, Ramanathan Vaidehi
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.10.2018
• EAN: 9780815358879
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-5887-9
• No. of pages: 110
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Linguistics, History: theory & methods, Asia, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, India, Sociolinguistics, Historical & comparative linguistics, Regional Geography, Historical and comparative linguistics, History: theory and methods