The Anglo-Indians in Hyderabad: Sociolinguistic, Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
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Author: | Smita Joseph |
ISBN 13: | 9789390232574 |
Binding: | Hardbound |
Language: | English |
Year: | 2020 |
Subject: | Philosophy and Religion/Christianity |
About the Book
By discussing the use of various strategies by which Christian
names have adapted according to their ecology in the Indian
context, this book provides new dimensions in the field of socioonomastics. It gives a fascinating account of how the AngloIndians of Hyderabad maintain their ethnic identity through the
use of proper names and slang. The data on slang and names
has been elicited through a combination of interviews, surveys
and ethnographic methods. The relationship between ethnicity
and language has been explored by comparing the usage of
slang across three age groups, as well as by comparing the usage
of proper names across three decades. The status of slang and
names as ethnic markers has been examined through the use of
statistics.