Contacts and contexts
Varying diasporic interactions and koineisation outcomes for Indian languages in South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3655826 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rajend Mesthrie (0000-0001-6338-6076, Linguistics Section University of Cape Town Cape Town South Africa) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 703-719 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sociolinguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-6441 • E-ISSN: 1467-9841 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/josl.12529 |
| OpenAlex | W4200339657 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This paper focuses on (a) a period of forced and semi-forced migration to newly established colonies under slavery and indenture in the era of European imperialism; and (b) a post-independence period of economic migration involving voluntary movements of large numbers of individuals to those colonies. It will show that there is no one-size-fits-all outcome regarding the linguistics of migration. Rather, the patterns of migration matter greatly. The paper describes past and ongoing research into five Indian languages of South Africa: Bhojpuri-Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Konkani and Gujarati. The diaspora varieties that evolved over a 150-year period fall into four sociohistoric types, chiefly involving the formation of koinés as against individual dialect persistence. Implicated in these differential outcomes are important input factors like (a) areas of recruitment and origin and their linguistic diversity, (b) patterns of migration, whether unilinear, circular or chain migration, (c) internal relations among migrants with other Indian groups and (d) varied power relations involving other South Africans. The paper also presents research on the relations and interactions between the older diasporas and new Indian migrants of the global era
Diaspora · Diversity (politics · Frontier · Genealogy · Geography · Gujarati · Hindi · Independence (probability theory · Linguistics · Period (music · Sociology · Tamil · Telugu · Anthropology · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Gender Studies · History
Pidginization and creolization of languages
Cape Town Gujarati and its relation to Gujarati dialectology
Kokni in Cape Town and the Sociolinguistics of Transnationalism
The Origins of Colloquial South African Tamil
The Origins of Fanagalo
Language, mobility and scale in South and Central Asia
Koineization in the Bhojpuri-Hindi diaspora - with special reference to South Africa
In other words
Koines and koineization
The Passenger Indian as Worker
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |