Discuss your ideas on “Indian English”. Justify your dialogue with a couple of case studies.
Indian English is speech or writing in English that shows the influence of the languages and culture of India. Also called English in India. Indian English (IndE) is one of the oldest regional varieties of the English language.
English is one of the 22 official languages recognized by the Constitution of India. "Soon," according to Michael J. Toolan, "there may be more native speakers of English in India than in the UK, a cohort speaking a new New English second in size only to the old New English spoken in America" (Language Teaching: Integrational Linguistic Approaches, 2009).
Examples and Observations
"In India, English has been in use for more than four centuries, first as the language of the early merchants, missionaries and settlers, later as the language of the British colonial power, and finally--after India's independence in 1947--as the so-called associate official language. . . .
"The conceptualization of IndE as a linguistic entity has posed challenges, and its existence as a variety in its own right has repeatedly been questioned. Although linguists nowadays agree widely that IndE has established itself as an 'independent language tradition' (Gramley/Pätzold 1992:441) not to be mistaken for an impoverished version of the 'Queen's English,' the question of just how unique or different IndE is ____ _____ __________ _______ _____ _____.
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