Linguistic Ecology: Bihar
Shailendra Kumar Singh & Sweta Sinha
North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya; Indian Institute of Technology Patna,
Bihar
The proposed volume presents an overview of the ethno-linguistic aspects of major languages spoken in the Indian state of Bihar. With a population size close to 100 million, the state has rich linguistic diversity. The book initiates special discussion on linguistic habitat of one of the profoundest multilingual states of India in synchronic and diachronic contexts. This volume is not a textbook in a strict sense, but has been designed to serve as main source of reading for linguists looking forward towards a comprehensive material on linguistic ecosphere of Bihar.
Languages like Maithili, Magahi, Bhojpuri, Bajjika, Kurmali and Eastern Hindi varieties have been discussed in details in different chapters. Some of the chapters provide an excellent read on folklore, traditional ecological knowledge and linguistic landscape of the region including the languages spoken by migrant communities. The volume would immensely benefit students and researchers studying languages including lesser known languages and language varieties spoken in Bihar and adjoining areas. This book would also be resourceful to linguists working in the areas of language contact, sociolinguistics, language documentation, language typology, language planning and policy making. In addition to linguists, political scientists and anthropologists, this volume will also prove to be useful for ecological studies, regional studies and gender studies. Some chapters will also be useful to non-specialists including educators, politicians, social activists and government officials concerned with linguistic habitat.
Contents:
M. K. Jha
Bihar’s Language Policies: Recognition of Maithili as a Medium of Primary Education
Sabiha Hashmi
Hindi in Colonial Bihar: Politics of Language and the Colonial Project
C. L. Khatri
Magahi Through the Ages
Nusrat Begum & Sweta Sinha
Transliteration and Code-Mixing: Prevailing Phenomena in Linguistic Ecology of Bihar
Priyanka Shukla & Shailendra Kumar Singh
Linguistic Landscape of Bihar
Tariq Khan & Manish Kumar Singh
Variations in Bhojpuri: A Sociolinguistic Study
Sandeep Kumar Sharma & Sweta Sinha
Gendered Bihar: An Investigative Study at the Interface of Language-Gender-Power
Muskaan
Sex-related Taboo Words and Euphemistic strategies used by Bajjika Speakers: A Sociolinguistic Study
Sweta Sinha
A Semasiological Sociopragmatic Investigation of Magahi Idioms: Towards Interfacing Language-Culture
Nirmal Kumar
Bhojpuri Cinema: Issues of Small Cinema, Regionalism and Sub-nationalism
Bornini Lahiri
Non-Canonical Cases in Bihari Languages
Deepak Alok, Atul Kr. Ojha & Sriniket Mishra
A Corpus-based Study of Semantics of Bare Nominals in Magahi and Bhojpuri: The Case of Article-less Languages
Shailendra Kumar Singh
Commonness of Verb Root in MBM Languages
Abhinav Kumar Mishra & Amit Kr. Chandrana
Language Contact and Syntactic Convergence: A Case Study of Aspects in Maithili
Manish Kumar Singh
Mixed Transitivity in Bhojpuri Complex Predicates
Bornini Lahiri: Kurmali
A Language of Undivided Bihar
Ritesh Kumar, Bornini Lahiri & Deepak Alok
Descriptive Study of Eastern Hindi: A Mixed Language
S. S. Bhattacharya
Indo- Aryan Tribal Languages: A Critical Sociolinguistic Study of Greater Eastern Region
Ravina Toppo, Ratul Mahela, Nusrat Begum, Sandeep Kumar Sharma & Sweta Sinha Vanishing Identity of Migrants in Bihar: An Ethno- linguistic Sketch of Lathor Community
ISBN 9783862889839. LINCOM Language Research 12. 180pp. 2019.