Devyani Sharma
List of John Benjamins publications in which Devyani Sharma is involved.
Journals
ISSN 2215-1354 | E‑ISSN 2215‑1362
ISSN 0172-8865 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9730
Title
English in the Indian Diaspora
Edited by Marianne Hundt and Devyani Sharma
Diasporic populations offer unique opportunities for the study of language variation and change. This volume is the first collection of sociolinguistic studies of English use across the historically complex and widely dispersed Indian diaspora. The contributions describe particular sociohistorical… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G50] 2014. ix, 244 pp.
2024 Chapter 6. Language acquisition across the lifespan and the emergence of new varieties Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives, Sanz-Sánchez, Israel (ed.), pp. 127–147 | Chapter
This chapter examines the role of acquisitional processes in the emergence of new language varieties, exploring the question in two ways. We first consider how different age groups and generations contribute to the emergence of new multi-ethnolects in Europe and in comparable contemporary… read more
2022 50 years of British accent bias: Stability and lifespan change in attitudes to accents English World-Wide 43:2, pp. 135–166 | Article
Do accent biases observed half a century ago (Giles 1970) and 15 years ago (Coupland and Bishop 2007) still hold in Britain today? We provide an updated picture of national attitudes to accent labels by replicating and extending previous studies. Mean ratings and relative rankings of 38 accents… read more
2014 Introduction English in the Indian Diaspora, Hundt, Marianne and Devyani Sharma (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Article
2014 Transnational flows, language variation, and ideology English in the Indian Diaspora, Hundt, Marianne and Devyani Sharma (eds.), pp. 215–242 | Article
Migrant groups maintain ties to their region of origin to different degrees, but this variable factor has not been consistently integrated into sociolinguistic studies of diaspora communities. A balanced consideration of transnational interaction, as well as the social valuation of such ties, is… read more
2011 Typological diversity in New Englishes The Typology of Asian Englishes, Lim, Lisa and Nikolas Gisborne (eds.), pp. 49–74 | Chapter
2010 Review of Sedlatschek (2009): Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change English World-Wide 31:2, pp. 209–214 | Review
2010 Chapter 8. A new methodology for the study of aspect in contact: Past and progressive in Indian English Aspect in Grammatical Variation, Walker, James A. (ed.), pp. 111–130 | Article
2009 Typological diversity in New Englishes The Typology of Asian Englishes, Lim, Lisa and Nikolas Gisborne (eds.), pp. 170–195 | Article
Recent research has aimed to integrate the investigation of vernacular universals in native English dialects with variation in postcolonial varieties of English and cross-linguistic typology (Chambers 2004; Kortmann 2004). This article assumes that any search for universals in bilingual varieties… read more
2009 AAVE/creole copula absence: A critique of the imperfect learning hypothesis Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24:1, pp. 53–90 | Article
This study confirms the robustness of the finding in the literature on African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and creole English (especially in the Caribbean) that omission of copular and auxiliary be varies systematically according to predicate type. Verbal predicates are associated with the… read more