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This volume explores issues of memory, remembering and language in late colonial India. It is the first systematic historical sociolinguistic study of English private and public citizens who lived in and/or worked for India and the Indian cause between 1920s to the 1940s.



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Introduction: Memory, Remembering, and Genres: Reconstructing ‘Historicity’ 1. Reconstructing Social Contexts from Unusual Linguistic Texts: Microhistory and Historicity 2. Epistles and Telegrams: Locating English Public Citizens 3. Oral Histories and Photographs: Locating English Private Citizens 4. Experimenting with Metafiction: The Case of Charles Andrews and the Reconstruction of a Time and Person 5. Reconstructing ‘Historicity’: Lessons for the Historical Sociolinguist

Language Memory and Remembering

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 2 October 2018
      ISBN-13 9780815358879
      978-0815358879
      ISBN-10 0815358873
      Also in:
      Historical and comparative linguistics Sociolinguistics Regional geography

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This volume explores issues of memory, remembering and language in late colonial India. It is the first systematic historical sociolinguistic study of English private and public citizens who lived in and/or worked for India and the Indian cause between 1920s to the 1940s.



      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Memory, Remembering, and Genres: Reconstructing ‘Historicity’ 1. Reconstructing Social Contexts from Unusual Linguistic Texts: Microhistory and Historicity 2. Epistles and Telegrams: Locating English Public Citizens 3. Oral Histories and Photographs: Locating English Private Citizens 4. Experimenting with Metafiction: The Case of Charles Andrews and the Reconstruction of a Time and Person 5. Reconstructing ‘Historicity’: Lessons for the Historical Sociolinguist

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