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 between 1920s to the 1940s.
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 between 1920s to the 1940s.
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.
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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
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
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