ISBN:
9780198893110
,
0198893116
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (321 p.)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Nag, Rajat Mohan From Here to Denmark
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Nag, Rajat M. From here to Denmark
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Political development
;
Public administration
;
Civil society
;
Rule of law
;
Democratization
Abstract:
This book represents the journey of developing nations from a state of poor governance to a state of good governance, reflected in predictability, accountability, and fairness in governance matters, and the strong presence of the rule of law
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Series -- From Deficit to Dialect -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Dialect Birth in Multilingual Settings -- 1.2 Deficit or Dialect? -- 1.3 Goals and Questions -- 1.4 Outline of the Book -- 1.5 Methods Used -- 1.6 Data for Indian English -- 1.7 Data for Singapore English -- Part I: English in India -- 2 Histories of English in India -- 2.1 Social Histories of English in India -- 2.1.1 Phase I: Early Colonial Contact -- 2.1.2 Phase II: The British Raj -- 2.1.3 Phase III: The Independence Movement
Description / Table of Contents:
2.1.4 Phase IV: Contemporary India -- 2.2 Common Features of Indian English -- 2.2.1 Retention of Historical British English Forms -- 2.2.2 Transfer from Indian Languages -- 2.2.3 Independent Innovations -- 2.3 Indian English as "decreasingly imperfect" Over Time? -- 2.4 Phase 3, Phase 4, or Phase 5? -- 3 Errors or Innovations? -- 3.1 The Problem of Nativeness -- 3.2 Models for Studying Variation in New Englishes -- 3.2.1 Second Language Acquisition -- 3.2.2 Native Dialect Variation -- 3.2.3 Language Contact and Creolization -- 3.3 Modeling New Englishes as a Usage Cline
Description / Table of Contents:
3.3.1 Bilingual Continua -- 3.3.2 Implicational Scaling -- 3.4 The Usage Cline of Indian English -- 3.4.1 Grammatical Features -- 3.4.2 The Indian English Usage Cline -- 3.4.3 Learner Features -- 3.4.4 New Dialect Features -- 3.4.5 Correspondence to Social Factors -- 3.5 Implications -- 3.5.1 IndE and Other Continua -- 3.5.2 Why Are Some Features More Dialect-Like than Others? -- 4 The Article System -- 4.1 Differences between Hindi and English -- 4.2 Predicted Types of Grammatical Change -- 4.2.1 Hypothesis 1: Indo-Aryan Positional Marking of Discourse Familiarity
Description / Table of Contents:
4.2.2 Hypothesis 2: Indo-Aryan Specificity Marking -- 4.2.3 Hypothesis 3: Universal Prototypes -- 4.2.4 Hypothesis 4: Discourse Status -- 4.3 Methodology -- 4.4 Results for Hypotheses 1-3 -- 4.4.1 Hypothesis 1: Transfer of L1 Positional Marking of Topicality -- 4.4.2 Hypothesis 2: Transfer of L1 Form Contrasts -- 4.4.3 Hypothesis 3: Universal Prototypes -- 4.5 Results for Hypothesis 4 -- 4.5.1 Modeling Givenness -- 4.5.2 Multivariate Analysis of Article Omission -- 4.6 Discussion: Pragmatic Reanalysis in Contact Settings -- 4.6.1 Corroboration across Studies
Description / Table of Contents:
4.6.2 Implications: Contact Varieties and Discourse-Driven Restructuring -- 5 The Verbal System -- 5.1 Differences between Hindi and English -- 5.2 Predicted Types of Grammatical Change -- 5.3 Methodology -- 5.3.1 Data -- 5.3.2 Analytic Approach for Four Hypotheses -- 5.3.3 Detailed Coding Criteria -- 5.4 Past Tense (Hypothesis 1) -- 5.5 Progressive (Hypothesis 2) -- 5.6 A Unified Account of Tense-to-Aspect Shift in IndE -- 5.7 The Past Perfect (Hypothesis 3) -- 5.8 Modality (Hypothesis 4) -- 5.8.1 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Will and Would -- 5.8.2 Will and Would in IndE
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
5.8.3 Explaining Will/Would Variation in IndE
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