This book is a descriptive account of English as it is used in India. IndianEnglish is a second language to most of its speakers. In its 400year historyit has a... » 

This book is a descriptive account of English as it is used in India. IndianEnglish is a second language to most of its speakers. In its 400year historyit has acquired its own character yet still looks to native varieties ofEnglish for norms. The complex nature of Indian English which is not really amonolithic entity is discussed in this book. The book also makes a distinctionbetween what are considered to be standard and nonstandard varieties andprovides an overview of the salient features.Indian English includesAdiscussion of the sociolinguistic and cultural factorsThe history of theestablishment of English in India bringing it up to modern timesA descriptionof the linguistic aspects phonetics and phonology lexical discourse andmorphosyntactic featuresSamples of written English from a range ofcontextsSamples of speechAn annotated bibliography divided according totopic. «