Rajend Mesthrie examines the rise of a new variety of English among Indian migrant workers indentured on the plantations of Natal in South Africa. Considering the historical background to, and linguistic consequences of, language shift in an immigrant context, he draws significant parallels between second language acquisition and the processes of pidginization and creolization. South African Indian English is compared with other dialects in South Africa, with English in India, and with Englishes generally.
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"It will interest sociologists, creolists, and students of language acquisition. Perhaps not all readers will agree with all of Mesthrie's conclusions, but he nevertheless offers enough data about a fascinating variety to make his book worthwhile reading." Timothy C. Frazer, Language
"...an outstanding contribution to the ever-growing body of cross-disciplinary literature on the intimate and often overlooked relations between language variation, language acquisition, and language shift. Its readers will vary from specialists in English as a second language, history, anthropology, education, linguistics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics to those interested in the expansion of the literary and cultural canons related to the English language." Rakesh M. Bhatt, Anthropological Linguistics
"This book is of great relevance to the study of language development in a wide sense...and it makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of sociohistorical, psycholinguistic, and linguistic processes of language shift involved in the emrgence of new languages and dialects....It can be recommended also to linguists interested in such varied fields as quantitative variation of the Labovian kind and Chomsky's generative linguistics, as well as second language studies, since in this book all these areas are approached in a non-partisan and mostly jargon-free fasion..." Eduardo D. Faingold, Word
"...an outstanding contribution to the ever-growing body of cross-disciplinary literature on the intimate and often overlooked relations between language variation, language acquisition, and language shift. Its readers will vary from specialists in English as a second language, history, anthropology, education, linguistics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics to those interested in the expansion of the literary and cultural canons related to the English language." Rakesh M. Bhatt, Anthropological Linguistics
"This book is of great relevance to the study of language development in a wide sense...and it makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of sociohistorical, psycholinguistic, and linguistic processes of language shift involved in the emrgence of new languages and dialects....It can be recommended also to linguists interested in such varied fields as quantitative variation of the Labovian kind and Chomsky's generative linguistics, as well as second language studies, since in this book all these areas are approached in a non-partisan and mostly jargon-free fasion..." Eduardo D. Faingold, Word
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Rajend Mesthrie examines the rise of a new variety of English among Indian migrant workers indentured on the plantations of Natal in South Africa. Considering the historical background to, and linguistic consequences of, language shift in an immigrant context, he draws significant parallels between second language acquisition and the processes of pidginisation and creolisation. South African Indian English is compared with other dialects in South Africa, with English in India, and with Englishes generally.
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