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2 unusual facts about Sociolinguistics research in India


Sociolinguistics research in India

In the mid-1960s, William Labov added an interest in variation within the speech of a caste.

Following Bloch's 1910 work on caste dialects, further studies were carried out in the 1960s by (among others) William McCormack, in an attempt to discover the origin and method of transmission of caste dialects, and by A. K. Ramanujan, comparing the kinds of language innovation between Brahmin and non-Brahmin dialects of Tamil.



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