Collected Works of Braj B. Kachru: Volume 3

by Braj Kachru, Jonathan J. Webster (Editor)

Overview

Professor Braj Kachru (b. 1932) has pioneered, shaped and defined the scholarly field of world Englishes. He is the founder and co-editor of World Englishes, the associate editor of the Oxford Companion to the English Language and contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language. His research on world Englishes, the Kashmiri language and literature, and theoretical and applied studies on language and society has resulted in more than 25 authored and edited volumes and more than 100 research papers, review articles, and reviews.

The third volume of these Collected Works details Kachru's key studies from the 19070s to 1990s in the areas of linguistics, multilingualism and language contact, including some of his work on language in India and South Asia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441137135
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	02/26/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Professor Braj Kachru is Center for Advanced Study Professor of Linguistics and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Emeritus, USA

Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Director of The Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Professor Braj Kachru, Jubilee Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the Managing Editor of the International Linguistics Association's journal WORD, and the editor of the forthcoming Journal of World Languages (2014).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Editor's Introduction
1. Linguistic schizophrenia and language census: a note on the Indian situation (1977)
2. Toward structuring code-mixing: an Indian perspective (1978)
3. Code-mixing as a communicative strategy in India (1978)
4. Bilingualism (1981)
5. The bilingual's linguistic repertoire (1982)
6. Language policy in South Asia (1982)
7. Institutionalized second-language varieties (1985)
8. Standards, codification and sociolinguistic realism: the English language in the outer circle (1985)
9. Current issues in bilingualism: an update of directions in research (1985)
10. The bilingual's creativity (1986)
11. Cultural contact and literary creativity in a multilingual society (1992)
12. Multilingualism and multiculturalism (1992)
13. Speech community (1994/1998)
Bibliography
Index