1st Edition

Language, Memory and Remembering Explorations in Historical Sociolinguistics

By Vaidehi Ramanathan Copyright 2019
120 Pages
by Routledge India

120 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

120 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

This volume explores issues of memory, remembering and language in late colonial India. It is the first systematic historical sociolinguistic study of English private and public citizens who lived in and/or worked for India and the Indian cause from the 1920s to the 1940s. While some of the English have lived as common citizens and were committed to India, their voices and contributions have... Read more



Introduction: Memory, Remembering, and Genres: Reconstructing ‘Historicity’ 1. Reconstructing Social Contexts from Unusual Linguistic Texts: Microhistory and Historicity 2. Epistles and Telegrams: Locating English Public Citizens 3. Oral Histories and Photographs: Locating English Private Citizens 4. Experimenting with Metafiction: The Case of Charles Andrews and the Reconstruction of a Time and Person 5. Reconstructing ‘Historicity’: Lessons for the Historical Sociolinguist

Biography

Vaidehi Ramanathan is Professor of Applied Sociolinguistics at the University of California, Davis, USA. Her research interests span two broad domains: language policy and language and health. She is interested in all issues pertaining literacy and teacher-education as well as disabilities and dementia.