Chapter 5. Hindi is perfect, Urdu is messy:The discourse of delegitimation of Urdu in India

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Chapter 1. Orthography as social action: Scripts, spelling, identity and power 1
4. Chapter 2. Orthography, publics, and legitimation crisis: The 1996 reform of German 21
5. Chapter 3. Orthography and Orthodoxy in post-Soviet Russia 43
6. Chapter 4. Reclamation, revalorization, and re-Tatarization via changing Tatar orthographies 65
7. Chapter 5. Hindi is perfect, Urdu is messy:The discourse of delegitimation of Urdu in India 103
8. Chapter 6. Spelling and identity in the Southern Netherlands (1750–1830) 135
9. Chapter 7. Orthography as literacy: How Manx was “reduced to writing” 161
10. Chapter 8. Orthography in practice: A Pennsylvania German case study 177
11. Chapter 9. Transcription in practice: Nonstandard orthography 203
12. Chapter 10. Orthography and calligraphic ideology in an Iranian-American heritage school 225
13. Chapter 11. Floating ideologies: Metamorphoses of graphic “Germanness” 255
14. Chapter 12. Whos punctuating what? Sociolinguistic variation in instant messaging 289
15. Chapter 13. How to spell the vernacular: A multivariate study of Jamaican e-mails and blogs 325
16. Chapter 14. “Greeklish”: Transliteration practice and discourse in the context of computer-mediated digraphia 359
17. Subject index 393