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Publication details [#50869]
Balasubramanian, Chandrika. 2009. Register Variation in Indian English. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 37). John Benjamins. xviii+284 pp. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
Register Variation in Indian English constitutes the first large-scale empirical investigation of an international variety of English. Using a combination of the corpus compiled for this project and relevant sections of ICE-India as its database, this work tests existing descriptions and characterizations of English in India, and provides the first empirical account of register variation in Indian English (or indeed, any international variety of English). Included in this survey are linguistic features that have been examined before and others that have not. From an empirical standpoint, it comments on the process of Indianization of the English used in India. The book provides a model on which future studies of international Englishes can be based.