Devyani Sharma
List of John Benjamins publications for which Devyani Sharma plays a role.
Journals
ISSN 0172-8865 | E-ISSN 1569-9730
ISSN 0920-9034 | E-ISSN 1569-9870
Title
English in the Indian Diaspora
Edited by Marianne Hundt and Devyani Sharma
[Varieties of English Around the World, G50] 2014. ix, 244 pp.
Subjects English linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Chapter 6. Language acquisition across the lifespan and the emergence of new varieties Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives, Sanz-Sánchez, Israel (ed.), pp. 127–147 | Chapter
2024 This chapter examines the role of acquisitional processes in the emergence of new language varieties, exploring the question in two ways. We first consider how different age groups and generations contribute to the emergence of new multi-ethnolects in Europe and in comparable contemporary… read more
50 years of British accent bias: Stability and lifespan change in attitudes to accents English World-Wide 43:2, pp. 135–166 | Article
2022 Do accent biases observed half a century ago (Giles 1970) and 15 years ago (Coupland and Bishop 2007) still hold in Britain today? We provide an updated picture of national attitudes to accent labels by replicating and extending previous studies. Mean ratings and relative rankings of 38 accents… read more
Introduction English in the Indian Diaspora, Hundt, Marianne and Devyani Sharma (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article
2014 Transnational flows, language variation, and ideology English in the Indian Diaspora, Hundt, Marianne and Devyani Sharma (eds.), pp. 215–242 | Article
2014 Migrant groups maintain ties to their region of origin to different degrees, but this variable factor has not been consistently integrated into sociolinguistic studies of diaspora communities. A balanced consideration of transnational interaction, as well as the social valuation of such ties, is… read more
Typological diversity in New Englishes The Typology of Asian Englishes, Lim, Lisa and Nikolas Gisborne (eds.), pp. 49–74 | Chapter
2011
2010
Chapter 8. A new methodology for the study of aspect in contact: Past and progressive in Indian English Aspect in Grammatical Variation, Walker, James A. (ed.), pp. 111–130 | Article
2010 Typological diversity in New Englishes The Typology of Asian Englishes, Lim, Lisa and Nikolas Gisborne (eds.), pp. 170–195 | Article
2009 Recent research has aimed to integrate the investigation of vernacular universals in native English dialects with variation in postcolonial varieties of English and cross-linguistic typology (Chambers 2004; Kortmann 2004). This article assumes that any search for universals in bilingual varieties… read more
AAVE/creole copula absence: A critique of the imperfect learning hypothesis Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24:1, pp. 53–90 | Article
2009 This study confirms the robustness of the finding in the literature on African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and creole English (especially in the Caribbean) that omission of copular and auxiliary be varies systematically according to predicate type. Verbal predicates are associated with the… read more