This is the first major sociolinguistic work on Indian diasporic communities in Germany. The study shows that metalanguage allows to understand what sociolinguistic stereotypes are at stake in diasporic communities and what criteria are made use of in such discriminations.

Autorentext

Giuliana Regnoli holds a PhD from the University of Naples "L'Orientale" and the University of Heidelberg. She is currently a research assistant in English linguistics at the University of Regensburg (Germany). Her research interests include sociophonetics, language attitudes, perceptual dialectology and World Englishes.

Inhalt

Accents - Dialects - Ethnicity - Identity - Indian diaspora - Indianness - Language attitudes - Language variation and change - Metalanguage - Mixed methods - Perceptual dialectology - Phonetics and phonology - Social networks - Sociolinguistics - Transient communities - World Englishes