Kamal K Sridhar

Biographic Data

ID94597
NAMEKamal K Sridhar
GIVEN NAMESKamal K
FAMILY NAMESridhar
SIGNATURESRIDHAR K K
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Asian and Asian American Studies and Mattoo Center for India Studies Stony Brook University USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS97
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Acculturation in World Englishes

    Open AccessKamal K SridharCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2026

    Linguistically and culturally, all varieties of World Englishes are an interesting and a dynamic phenomenon: interesting, because after years of contact of the native languages with English, distinctive varieties are emerging all around the world; and dynamic, because the English language is constantly evolving and changing in many cultures around the world, as the expressive resources of the English language are constantly being used to express …

  • The intellectual trajectory of Braj B. Kachru

    Open AccessS N Sridhar, Kamal K SridharARTICLEWorld Englishes2019References: 6

    Braj Kachru is a major figure in linguistics and English studies, and he has left us an intellectual legacy that speaks to a wide range of fields in language studies, including sociolinguistics, variation studies, bilingualism and multilingualism, applied linguistics, second language acquisition, and teaching English as a second or foreign language. This article sets out to provide a detailed and nuanced study of the intellectual trajectory of on…

  • Mixing, multilingualism, and intelligibility

    Open AccessS N Sridhar, Kamal K SridharARTICLEWorld Englishes2018References: 6

    This article expands the discussion of Larry Smith's theory of intelligibility to explore multilingual language use with reference to code‐mixing in the Indian context. Our findings suggest that the understanding of intelligibility in the context of bilingual/multilingual language mixing calls for a rich sociolinguistic model that is socially realistic and culturally rooted

  • Coda 2 A bridge half-built: Toward a holistic theory of Second Language Acquisition and world Englishes

    Open AccessN Sridhar, S N Sridhar et al.ARTICLEWorld Englishes2018Cited by: 2References: 34

    In the concluding contribution to this special issue, we return to the key issue that motivated our 1986 article on world Englishes (WE) and Second Language Acquisition (SLA). This coda begins by considering the impact of WE on SLA at a number of levels, with reference to the pluricentricity of English, conceptions of the 'native speaker', formalist ontology, functional perspectives, multilingualism, and other dynamic approaches to SLA. We then p…

  • English as a plural language: The significance of Yamuna Kachru

    Open AccessS N Sridhar, Kamal K SridharARTICLEWorld Englishes2015References: 4

    In a distinguished career spanning five decades Professor Yamuna Kachru enriched several areas of linguistics and applied language studies. This initial appreciation attempts to show how her family background, education, and experience on three continents shaped her interests and perspectives. The evolution of her research is structured as a series of concentric circles, each informed by the previous ones. The inner circle is her monumental work …

  • Comment 2

    Open AccessKamal K SridharARTICLEWorld Englishes2005References: 1

  • Language in education: Minorities and multilingualism in India

    Open AccessKamal K SridharARTICLEInternational Review of Education1996Cited by: 7References: 10

  • Mother Tongue Maintenance: The Debate. Mother Tongue Maintenance and Multiculturalism

    Kamal K SridharARTICLETESOL Quarterly1994Cited by: 1

  • Language maintenance and language shift among Asian-Indians: Kannadigas in the New York area

    Kamal K SridharARTICLEInternational Journal of the…1988Cited by: 5

    Article Language maintenance and language shift among Asian-Indians: Kannadigas in the New York area was published on January 1, 1988 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1988, issue 69)

  • Sociolinguistic theory and non-native varieties of English

    Open AccessKamal K SridharARTICLELingua1986Cited by: 4References: 16

  • Bridging the paradigm gap: Second language acquisition theory and indigenized varieties of English

    Open AccessKamal K Sridhar, N Sridhar et al.ARTICLEWorld Englishes1986Cited by: 31References: 11

    It is argued that there is a paradigm gap that has prevented research on second-language acquisition (SLA) theory and indigenized varieties of English (IVEs) from making substantive contributions to each other. While it is true that studies of IVEs and their acquisition have been impressionistic (non-empirical) and often atheoretical, the lack of rapprochement is also due to SLA theory's excessive reliance for its models on acquisition in native-…

  • The syntax and psycholinguistics of bilingual code mixing

    N Sridhar, S N Sridhar et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Psychology/Revu…1980Cited by: 47References: 3

    Psychologists have traditionally focused on the functional separation of the two languages in the 'ideal' bilingual. However, recent studies on intrasentential code-switching, or Code Mixing (CM), show this to be a legitimate, highly structured bilingual communicative device with its own syntactic and sociolinguistic constraints. An examination of the syntactic properties of CM in particular the Dual Structure Constraint - reveals that CM is a hi…

  • The Spread of English

    Kamal K Sridhar, Joshua A Fishman et al.ARTICLETESOL Quarterly1979