Sociolinguistic patterns and names: A variationist study of changes in personal names among Indian South Africans
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DOI: 10.1017/s0047404520000652
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article unlocks the complex indexicalities pertaining to names in a multilayered diasporic field, one in which descendants from different ancestral areas of a former homeland (India) have merged loosely into a new community… read more here.
Keywords: indian south; personal names; patterns names; sociolinguistic patterns ... See more keywords