LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:4 April 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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A Review of Relationship between Language Use and Status
A Book by Dr. Perumalsamy

Reviewed by M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.

An Original and Significant Contribution to Indian Sociolinguistics

This book, written in Tamil, Relationship between Language Use and Status, is a significant and original contribution to Tamil and Indian sociolinguistics by a senior language-census analyst and scholar. Dr. Perumalsamy has done an excellent in-depth study of a village in Tamilnadu.

This study is presented here as a monograph. The study identifies and describes the processes of language communication and shows how these processes include marking and allocation of social status among the interactants of conversations.

This is an empirical study based on the description of the data collected from the field. Statistical measures are not applied, but significant elements that signal status are clearly identified. Indeed, it is an excellent social anthropological investigation.

There are 10 chapters in the book.

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