English in language shift : the history, structure, and sociolinguistics of South African Indian English

Indian migrant workers, Indenture, plantations, Linguistic, language change
Collection: 
Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre
Creator: 
Rajend Mesthrie
Resource Type: 
Photographs
Language: 
English
Coverage: 
South Africa
Resource Identifier: 
LANG/ENG MES
File Type: 
Picture
Publisher: 
Cambridge University Press
Rights Holder: 
UKZN - Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre

Rajend Mesthrie examines the rise of a new variety of English among Indian migrant workers indentured on the plantations of Natal in South Africa. Considering the historical background to, and linguistic consequences of, language shift in an immigrant context, he …

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On: Monday, May 3, 2021 - 11:26