Isbn: 9788170182146 - socio cultural approach to tribal languages (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. The tribal community being the earliest inhabitants of Indian society are isolated and have maintained a distinctive life style of their own. Although tribal society has been studied from sociological and anthropological point of view, and its language by many linguists, hardly any attempt has been made to relate the two in a significant manner. In this massive research work, the author has systematically traced the history of socio-linguistic structure of Bastar, and has also provided a brief survey of the linguistic diversity prevalent in Bastar. A serious effort to examine and study the tribal languages of Bastar from socio-cultural perspective has been attempted. The author has concerned himself not simply with the description of structural variables but also analysed social meanings carried by rhetorical and semantic strategies, e.g. in tribal speech, anthropolinguistic rules governing conversations, information processing and social rituals etc. Contemporary research on tribal languages has succeeded in putting lie to the notion that tribal speech is an 'impoverished' collection of random elements of speech 'errors' learned from illiterate castes. This volume will be of interest not only to students of tribal studies, but to anthropologists, sociologists and linguists in particular. …