CHAPTER 5 Language in the South Asian Diaspora in Britain

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures, Maps and Tables vii
4. Notes on Contributors x
5. Acknowledgements xiv
6. Abbreviations xv
7. Main Symbol Equivalences xvii
8. Introduction: Diversity and Diaspora 1
9. CHAPTER 1 Resistance and Reconciliation: Language and Identity Construction among the Internally Displaced Bhils in the Narmada Valley 12
10. CHAPTER 2 Narratives of Displaced Kashmiri Pandits: Mobility, Diasporic Morbidity and the Chronotope of Victimhood1 29
11. CHAPTER 3 Patterns of Language Use in the Diaspora Communities in Kolkata 48
12. CHAPTER 4 Diasporic Adjustments and Indian Languages in South Africa 68
13. CHAPTER 5 Language in the South Asian Diaspora in Britain 89
14. CHAPTER 6 Symbolic Value as a Catalyst for Language Maintenance: Sanskrit in the US Diaspora 108
15. CHAPTER 7 Indian Languages in Singapore 125
16. CHAPTER 8 East Indian Languages in the Caribbean Diaspora 143
17. CHAPTER 9 A Sociolinguistic Investigation of the Retention of Ancestral Dialect Features in Kokni Spoken in Cape Town 167
18. CHAPTER 10 The Dialect Roots of Varieties of Gujarati in South Africa 186
19. CHAPTER 11 South African Gujarati Literature: An Inventory and Critical Commentary 205
20. CHAPTER 12 Performing Language Alternation in Multilingual Mauritius: The Conversational Significance of Song Interludes in Everyday Interactions 227
21. Index 251