Year: 2016
Type: other
Abstract: Linguistics, English, and India Studies have lost one of their most charismatic leaders.Professor Braj B. Kachru successfully challenged the orthodoxies of the English Studies establishment on both sides of the Atlantic (the British Council, TESOL) which looked upon Indian English and other non-native varieties as erroneous approximations of standard or native speaker English.Through half a century of meticulous scholarship and energetic advocacy, he demonstrated their systematic structure, natural evolution, and functional vigor, earning them respect as vibrant expressions of distinct cultural identities.In the process, he emerged as the world's leading authority on all aspects of the use of English around the world.Today, world Englishes, the field of study he pioneered and dominated, is a burgeoning discipline with a world-wide following.Kachru was also a most respected and influential scholar on the languages of India, especially, sociolinguistics and multilingualism.He also wrote a grammar of Kashmiri, and a history Kashmiri literature.He worked closely with many Indian writers and intellectuals, such as Raja Rao.
Source: World Englishes
DOI: 10.1111/weng.12231
Author: S. N. SRIDHAR
Institution: Stony Brook University
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2565808100