LLR 12: Linguistic Ecology: Bihar

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Linguistic Ecology: Bihar
 
Shailendra Kumar Singh & Sweta Sinha
North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya; Indian Institute of Technology Patna,
Bihar
 
The proposed volume presents an overview of the ethno-linguistic aspects of major languages spoken in the Indian state of Bihar. With a population size close to 100 million, the state has rich linguistic diversity. The book initiates special discussion on linguistic habitat of one of the profoundest multilingual states of India in synchronic and diachronic contexts. This volume is not a textbook in a strict sense, but has been designed to serve as main source of reading for linguists looking forward towards a comprehensive material on linguistic ecosphere of Bihar.
 
Languages like Maithili, Magahi, Bhojpuri, Bajjika, Kurmali and Eastern Hindi  varieties have been discussed in details in different chapters. Some of the chapters provide an excellent read on folklore, traditional ecological knowledge and linguistic landscape of the region including the languages spoken by migrant communities. The volume would immensely benefit students and researchers studying languages including lesser known languages and language varieties spoken in Bihar and adjoining areas. This book would also be resourceful to linguists working in the areas of language contact, sociolinguistics, language documentation, language typology, language planning and policy making. In addition to linguists, political scientists and anthropologists, this volume will also prove to be useful for ecological studies, regional studies and gender studies. Some chapters will also be useful to non-specialists including educators, politicians, social activists and government officials concerned with linguistic habitat.
 
 

Contents:

 

M. K. Jha

Bihar’s Language Policies: Recognition of Maithili as a Medium of Primary Education

 

Sabiha Hashmi

Hindi in Colonial Bihar: Politics of Language and the Colonial Project

 

C. L. Khatri

Magahi Through the Ages

 

Nusrat Begum & Sweta Sinha

Transliteration and Code-Mixing: Prevailing Phenomena in Linguistic Ecology of Bihar

 

Priyanka Shukla & Shailendra Kumar Singh

Linguistic Landscape of Bihar

 

Tariq Khan & Manish Kumar Singh

Variations in Bhojpuri: A Sociolinguistic Study

 

Sandeep Kumar Sharma & Sweta Sinha

Gendered Bihar: An Investigative Study at the Interface of Language-Gender-Power

 

Muskaan

Sex-related Taboo Words and Euphemistic strategies used by Bajjika Speakers: A Sociolinguistic Study

 

Sweta Sinha

A Semasiological Sociopragmatic Investigation of Magahi Idioms: Towards Interfacing Language-Culture

 

Nirmal Kumar

Bhojpuri Cinema: Issues of Small Cinema, Regionalism and Sub-nationalism

 

Bornini Lahiri

Non-Canonical Cases in Bihari Languages

 

Deepak Alok, Atul Kr. Ojha & Sriniket Mishra

A Corpus-based Study of Semantics of Bare Nominals in Magahi and Bhojpuri: The Case of Article-less Languages

 

Shailendra Kumar Singh

Commonness of Verb Root in MBM Languages  

 

Abhinav Kumar Mishra & Amit Kr. Chandrana

Language Contact and Syntactic Convergence: A Case Study of Aspects in Maithili

 

Manish Kumar Singh

Mixed Transitivity in Bhojpuri Complex Predicates

 

Bornini Lahiri: Kurmali

A Language of Undivided Bihar

 

Ritesh Kumar, Bornini Lahiri & Deepak Alok

Descriptive Study of Eastern Hindi: A Mixed Language

 

S. S. Bhattacharya

Indo- Aryan Tribal Languages: A Critical Sociolinguistic Study of Greater Eastern Region

 

Ravina Toppo, Ratul Mahela, Nusrat Begum, Sandeep Kumar Sharma & Sweta Sinha Vanishing Identity of Migrants in Bihar: An Ethno- linguistic Sketch of Lathor Community

 
ISBN 9783862889839. LINCOM Language Research 12. 180pp. 2019.
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