Raja Ram Mehrotra
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raja Ram Mehrotra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raja Ram |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehrotra |
| SIGNATURE | MEHROTRA R R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Banaras Hindu University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A British response to some Indian English usages
English has been established in India for well over two centuries, and is now both its major lingua franca and ‘window on the world’. Some Indianisms are however little known beyond South Asia and are liable to be regarded by native speakers of English as ‘deviant’ in various ways. Here, a project is described in which a set of distinctive and representative Indian English expressions was shown to a group of native English speakers who were asked…
English in private letters in India
Some aspects of a corpus of personal correspondence. English as used in business letters, job applications and different types of bureaucratic communication in India has become more or less standardized and is not much different from the language of similar letters written elsewhere in the English-speaking world. But this is not the case with private letters, which are intimate, informal and often lax. Since a personal letter is written to a frie…
Indian Pidgin English
A report on a pilot project recently conducted on a disputed variety of English in India
Lexical Polysemy in Indian Pidgin English
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Indian English
Indian English, or rather, the forms of English used in India, have long been a topic of interest for laymen and scholars. For generations, the ‘exotic’ nature of the transplanted language was commented on, often ridiculed as a matter of unintentional comic. It was only from the 1960s onwards that the local forms of English were recognized for what they are — adaptations of the world language to local needs, and varying to an enormous degree, dep…
Endangered languages in India
Perhaps nowhere eise in the worid is theproblem oflanguage endangerment so great as in India and, unfortunately, very little effort has been made to protect and preserve these languages. As many as 153 classified and 289 unclassified languages in the country have a total number of Speakers in the range ofone tofive, according to the census report. Thispaper identifies the endangered languages andplaces them in thefollowing categories: extinct lan…
Reduplication in Indian Pidgin English
A report on a distinguishing feature of the disputed but nonetheless vigorous Pidgin English of India
How to be polite in Indian English
Verbalization of politeness in Indian English varies considerably from British and American English. This is evident from an analysis oftheforms of address, verbalization of gratitude, special politeness phraseology and strategy in the native andnon-native varieties of English. The Indian English politeness forms admit of greater individual Variation and stylistic range and a lower percentage of Standard, conventional, and fixed forms in comparis…
Plural Languages, Plural Cultures
Sociolinguistic surveys in South Asia
Registral Features of Film Advertising in Indian English
Impact of Religion on Hindi Personal Names
References Bean, Susan S. (1978). Symbolic and Pragmatic Semantics: A Kannada System of Address. Chicago. Kay, Paul (1977). Language evolution and speech style. In Ben G. Blount and Mary Sanches (eds.). Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change. New York. Vibhu, Vidyabhushan (1958). Abhidhan Anushilan (In Hindi). Allahabad
Sociocultural dimensions of language change
How to be polite in Indian English
Verbalization of politeness in Indian English varies considerably from British and American English. This is evident from an analysis oftheforms of address, verbalization of gratitude, special politeness phraseology and strategy in the native andnon-native varieties of English. The Indian English politeness forms admit of greater individual Variation and stylistic range and a lower percentage of Standard, conventional, and fixed forms in comparis…
Impact of Religion on Hindi Personal Names
References Bean, Susan S. (1978). Symbolic and Pragmatic Semantics: A Kannada System of Address. Chicago. Kay, Paul (1977). Language evolution and speech style. In Ben G. Blount and Mary Sanches (eds.). Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change. New York. Vibhu, Vidyabhushan (1958). Abhidhan Anushilan (In Hindi). Allahabad
Sociocultural dimensions of language change
Impact of Religion on Hindi Personal Names
References Bean, Susan S. (1978). Symbolic and Pragmatic Semantics: A Kannada System of Address. Chicago. Kay, Paul (1977). Language evolution and speech style. In Ben G. Blount and Mary Sanches (eds.). Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Change. New York. Vibhu, Vidyabhushan (1958). Abhidhan Anushilan (In Hindi). Allahabad
Registral Features of Film Advertising in Indian English
Plural Languages, Plural Cultures
Sociolinguistic surveys in South Asia
How to be polite in Indian English
Verbalization of politeness in Indian English varies considerably from British and American English. This is evident from an analysis oftheforms of address, verbalization of gratitude, special politeness phraseology and strategy in the native andnon-native varieties of English. The Indian English politeness forms admit of greater individual Variation and stylistic range and a lower percentage of Standard, conventional, and fixed forms in comparis…
Reduplication in Indian Pidgin English
A report on a distinguishing feature of the disputed but nonetheless vigorous Pidgin English of India
Lexical Polysemy in Indian Pidgin English
Preview this article: Lexical Polysemy in Indian Pidgin English, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/jpcl.14.1.08raj-1.gif
Indian English
Indian English, or rather, the forms of English used in India, have long been a topic of interest for laymen and scholars. For generations, the ‘exotic’ nature of the transplanted language was commented on, often ridiculed as a matter of unintentional comic. It was only from the 1960s onwards that the local forms of English were recognized for what they are — adaptations of the world language to local needs, and varying to an enormous degree, dep…
Endangered languages in India
Perhaps nowhere eise in the worid is theproblem oflanguage endangerment so great as in India and, unfortunately, very little effort has been made to protect and preserve these languages. As many as 153 classified and 289 unclassified languages in the country have a total number of Speakers in the range ofone tofive, according to the census report. Thispaper identifies the endangered languages andplaces them in thefollowing categories: extinct lan…
Indian Pidgin English
A report on a pilot project recently conducted on a disputed variety of English in India
English in private letters in India
Some aspects of a corpus of personal correspondence. English as used in business letters, job applications and different types of bureaucratic communication in India has become more or less standardized and is not much different from the language of similar letters written elsewhere in the English-speaking world. But this is not the case with private letters, which are intimate, informal and often lax. Since a personal letter is written to a frie…
A British response to some Indian English usages
English has been established in India for well over two centuries, and is now both its major lingua franca and ‘window on the world’. Some Indianisms are however little known beyond South Asia and are liable to be regarded by native speakers of English as ‘deviant’ in various ways. Here, a project is described in which a set of distinctive and representative Indian English expressions was shown to a group of native English speakers who were asked…
Linguistics (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · History (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Pidgin (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)