Rethinking Multilingualism : Issues and Problems
Contents: Editor\'s note/Shailendra Kumar Singh. Introduction/Udaya Narayana Singh. 1. Uncharted territory: challenges of the unknown/Juanita War. 2. Multilingualism: recognition, rights and realities/John Edwards. 3. Accommodating deviance: Tibetan exiles in India/Tenzin Dorjee and Howard Giles. 4. Threatened languages and linguistic rights of minorities: some empirical background/Thomas Benedikter. 5. Multicultural effectiveness: issues in language learning and teaching/Tony Young and Itesh Sachdev. 6. Deep multilingualism and linguistic temptation: celebration of Third/Shailendra Kumar Singh. 7. National integration and multilingualism: India\'s reality show/Omkar Nath Koul. 8. A journey from melting-pot to linguistic melt-down: re-reading multilingualism/Ranjit Singh Rangila. 9. India\'s micro-cosmic model for link language: a sociolinguistic enquiry of Nagpur Region/Vasant S. Khokle. 10. Within parenthesis: (Speech) community and language rights/Imtiaz Hasnain. 11. Selectiveness and linguistic strategy: manipulation in language of market/A.R. Fatihi. 12. Certain spats of multi-authored emerging text: emergence of a new variety/B.N. Patnaik. 13. Taboos and secret languages: core values and multilingualism/Krishna Bhattacharya. 14. Celebrating Indian English and other varieties/Z.N. Patil. 15. Playing the game of linguistic chess: domination, subversion and celebration/Shreya Bhattacharji. 16. Agreements in Khasi: a topic of research in North-East linguistics/Badaplin War. 17. Mapping the territory: typicality, collaboration and resistance/Chanchala K. Naik. Contributors.
From the Introduction: "The aim of this volume is to present an overview of the multilinguistic situation in the countries such as India, and discuss the efforts to promote and maintain linguistic diversity, and at the same time, offer a space to the issues facing the less privileged groups (and their languages), including a discussion on the constitutional provisions for all language communities."
