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Publication details [#20594]

Mehrotra, Raja Ram. 1985. Sociolinguistics in Hindi contexts. De Gruyter. xi + 152 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
Italian
Keywords
ethnography of speaking | greeting | marketplace conversation | nick name | proper name | sociolinguistics | terms of address
Language as a subject
Hindi

Annotation

Four case studies on sociolinguistic aspects of the Hindi speakers of North India, analyzed from the perspective of the ethnography of speaking. The topics are: the language of buying and selling of silk goods; Hindi address forms; modes of greeting in Hindi; and Hindi personal names and nicknames.

Reviewed by

Pattanayak, D.P. 1988. Review of $Sociolinguistics in Hindi contexts.
Apte, Mahadev L. 1989. Review of $Sociolinguistics in Hindi contexts.