Grassroots English in a communication paradigm.

Autor/inn/en	Khubchandani, Lachman M.; Hosali, Priya
Titel	Grassroots English in a communication paradigm.
Quelle	In: Language problems & language planning, 23 (1999) 3, S. 251-272Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anmerkungen 2; Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-2690
Schlagwörter	Empirische Forschung; Kommunikativer Ansatz; Pidginisierung; Varietät; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Mehrsprachigkeit; Englisch; Englischunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Indien
Abstract	The paper focuses on the communicative approach in plurilingual settings and analyzes data from Indian English in the light of the speaker/listener, the task, the context, and other negotiating factors which regulate speech in everyday life. In the post-colonial period there has been a noticeable growth in the use of grassroots English among those who spontaneously acquire certain rudimentary characteristics of the language in an urban plurilingual milieu. By and large, such use of language is not formally learnt by education. This situation reveals the processes of adaptation to the context-and-task-specific reality. Instead of deliberating over the normative characteristics of Indian English on the global pluricentric cline of native and non-native Englishes, the study concerns itself with identifying the complementarity of grassroots English with other Indian languages, and its emergence as one of the vital contact languages in plural India. (Verlag).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2024/2