Indian english

This chapter focuses on variety of subdisciplines in linguistics and applied linguistics-descriptive linguistics, sociolinguistics, sociology of language, bilingualism, second language acquisition, second and foreign language teaching, and stylistics. Multilingualism is both the site and a constituent force where grand themes of the Indian civilizational narrative have been played out: contact, conflict, rivalry, diversity, pluralism, mixing, maintenance, tolerance, and assimilation. The chapter refers to the range of varieties encompassed by the term Indian English and describes the main features of what the author calls Educated Indian English. It outlines selected features of Indian English draws on a combination of sources: published partial descriptions based on impressionistic accounts, analysis of publications, such as newspapers and literature, and data from limited empirical studies based on elicitations, both spoken and written, as well as analysis of corpora.