Publications
Publication details [#13798]
Dasgupta, Probal. 1995. On the Sociolinguistics of English in India. In Singh, Rajendra, Probal Dasgupta and Jayant K. Lele. Explorations in Indian Sociolinguistics. (Language and Development 2). SAGE Publications. pp. 135–159. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
In this essay D. suggests that core linguistics can aspire to the status of 'value-free' field of inquiry, while sociolinguists by definition cannot do so.