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Defining the Indefinable: Delimiting Hindi: (1 Studies in East Asian Literatures and Cultures)


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The nine extensive essays of this volume are by specialists on South Asia whose research focus includes the extremely complicated problematics of the linguistic situation there. It is devoted to the broadly understood problem of defining Hindi as well as indicating the different ranges of its use. The authors of the included texts come from Europe, the USA and India, and grapple with questions such as what Hindi is, how it functions in the social, political and cultural dimensions of present-day India, and how it is being used by authorities and various influential actors at different levels of Indian reality. The volume should be important and useful for all those who are interested in Hindi, its official and non-official status, and in Indian linguistic policy and politics generally.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Rahul Peter Das: Defining Hindi: An Introductory Overview – Heinz Werner Wessler: Hindi Revisited: Language and Language Policies in India in Perspective – Hans Harder: Traces of Sacredness in Imaginings of Hindi – Selma K. Sonntag: Depoliticising Hindi in India – Anvita Abbi/Maansi Sharma: Hindi as a Contact Language of Northeast India – Surendra K. Gambhir: Linguistic Relationships: Bhojpuri and Standard Hindi. A View from the Western Hemisphere – Anjali Gera Roy: Filmī Zubān. The Language of Hindi Cinema – Christina Oesterheld: Hindi/Urdu/Hindustani in the Metropolises: Visual (and Other) Impressions – Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś/Dagmara Gil: A Mixed Language? Hinglish and Business Hindi.

About the Author :
Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś obtained her doctorate and habilitation degrees in linguistics from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland). She has published several books and articles on various topics related to Hindi-Urdu linguistics, South-Asian sociolinguistics and Indo-Islamic traditions as well as numerous translations from Hindi and Urdu into Polish.

Review :
«In this collection of papers, not only is the current situation of “Hindi” comprehensively surveyed, but also its complexity elucidated in the light of the past by considering its historical vicissitudes and cultural background.» (Makoto Kitada, Orientalistischen Literaturzeitung 112/2017)


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  • ISBN-13: 9783631647745
  • Publisher: Peter Lang AG
  • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang AG
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 1 Studies in East Asian Literatures and Cultures
  • Width: 148 mm
  • ISBN-10: 3631647743
  • Publisher Date: 20 Aug 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Weight: 480 gr


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