Defining the Indefinable: Delimiting Hindi
Author:
Agnieszka Kucziewicz-Fras (editor)
ISBN:
9783631647745
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2014
Pages:
210
Size:
15 x 21 cm
Weight:
380 grams
Price:
INR
1580.00
The nine extensive essays of this volume are by specialists on South Asia whose research focus includes the extremely complicated problematics of the linguistic situation there. It is devoted to the broadly understood problem of defining Hindi as well as indicating the different ranges of its use. The authors of the included texts come from Europe, the USA and India, and grapple with questions such as what Hindi is, how it functions in the social, political and cultural dimensions of present-day India, and how it is being used by authorities and various influential actors at different levels of Indian reality. The volume should be important and useful for all those who are interested in Hindi, its official and non-official status, and in Indian linguistic policy and politics generally.
Divya C. Mcmillin
Divya C. McMillin is Associate Professor of International Communication and Cultural Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma. She is author of International Media Studies (2007). Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Communication, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Popular Communication, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, and other journals, and in a variety of anthologies on media globalization and reception.