Publications

Publication details [#4100]

Gumperz, John J. 1957. Language problems in the rural development of North India. Journal of Asian Studies 16 : 251–259.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

rural community | standard1 vs. dialect2

Annotation

An account of some of the linguistic difficulties in communication that come up between government officials and villagers as a result of the discrepancies between spoken dialects and the standard spoken and written language.

Reprints

Gumperz, John J. 1971. In Gumperz, John J., ed. Language in social groups. Selected and introduced by Anwar S. Dil. Stanford UP. pp. 12–24.