India as a Sociolinguistic Area  

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Khubchandani, Lachman M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 13 no. 2 (1991), page 265-288.
Fulltext: 13_02_Khubchandani.pdf (1.44MB)

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Literate societies generally treat language as an autonomous system with its distinct history and tradition. Speech activity, however, as an ongoing process responding to a variety of communication settings, is as much a product of environment as of tradirion. The study attempts to understand the ecology of language in the Indian subcontinent, marked by the plurality of cultures and communication patterns in one space. The Indian geography of language plurality provides some glimpses of the speech communication patterns in the subcontinent through the characteristics such as: (i) fuzziness of language boundaries: (ii) fluidity in language identity; (iii) identity claims vs language communications; and (iv) complementarity of intra-group and inter-group communications. This phenomenon is identified as a case of organic pluralism, in contrast with the srrucruml pluralism that prevail in many multilingual countries of Europe. In this context, the paper probes into the traditional Indian concept of ksherra ‘the region’ which presents a sense of collective reality in midst of a wide spectrum of linguistic and cultural variation in everyday life.

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