Rakesh Mohan Bhatt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3842959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rakesh Mohan Bhatt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rakesh Mohan |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhatt |
| SIGNATURE | BHATT R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9030-4216 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Linguistic discreteness and its variable expressions in multilingualism
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: The aim of this research is to critically examine the concept of linguistic discreteness in multilingual practices, responding to contemporary debates that question the existence of languages as separate entities. We present a range of empirical data to demonstrate the theoretical necessity of maintaining the concept of language as discrete system in understanding multilingual practices. The researc…
World Englishes: The Study of New Linguistic Varieties
The spread of English around the world has been and continues to be both rapid and unpredictable. World Englishes: The Study of New Linguistic Varieties deals with this inescapable result of colonisation and globalisation from a social and linguistic perspective. The main focus of the book is on the second-language varieties of English that have developed in the former British colonies of East and West Africa, the Caribbean, South and South-East …
Experts, dialects, and discourse
This paper examines “expert” discourse – complexes of signs and practices that organize and legitimize social existence and social reproduction – to demonstrate the ideological processes involved in the manufacture of Standard English ideology and its continual duplication as necessitated by the three axiomatic conceptions of the English‐sacred imagined community (cf. Anderson 1991). It is argued that the hierarchical structure needed to sustain …
Code-switching, constraints, and optimal grammars
Experts, dialects, and discourse
This paper examines “expert” discourse – complexes of signs and practices that organize and legitimize social existence and social reproduction – to demonstrate the ideological processes involved in the manufacture of Standard English ideology and its continual duplication as necessitated by the three axiomatic conceptions of the English‐sacred imagined community (cf. Anderson 1991). It is argued that the hierarchical structure needed to sustain …
Code-switching, constraints, and optimal grammars
Code-switching, constraints, and optimal grammars
Experts, dialects, and discourse
This paper examines “expert” discourse – complexes of signs and practices that organize and legitimize social existence and social reproduction – to demonstrate the ideological processes involved in the manufacture of Standard English ideology and its continual duplication as necessitated by the three axiomatic conceptions of the English‐sacred imagined community (cf. Anderson 1991). It is argued that the hierarchical structure needed to sustain …
World Englishes: The Study of New Linguistic Varieties
The spread of English around the world has been and continues to be both rapid and unpredictable. World Englishes: The Study of New Linguistic Varieties deals with this inescapable result of colonisation and globalisation from a social and linguistic perspective. The main focus of the book is on the second-language varieties of English that have developed in the former British colonies of East and West Africa, the Caribbean, South and South-East …
Linguistic discreteness and its variable expressions in multilingualism
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: The aim of this research is to critically examine the concept of linguistic discreteness in multilingual practices, responding to contemporary debates that question the existence of languages as separate entities. We present a range of empirical data to demonstrate the theoretical necessity of maintaining the concept of language as discrete system in understanding multilingual practices. The researc…
Computer Science (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Code-switching (1 works)