New ethnicities and language use
By: Roxy Harris
Series: Language and globalization; Language and globalization
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781403998941
Subjects: Social conditions; South Asians; Group identity; Teenagers; English language
Description: "New Ethnicities and Language Use is a study of self-representations of their own patterns of language use of a group of 30 adolescents of mainly South Asian descent in West London. The study contributes to an analysis of the nature of ethnicity amongst Britain's visible minorities at the turn of the century. The young people portrayed are living out British identities which go largely unrecognized, as dominant voices both inside and outside their communities seek to foreground and hold in place alternative positionings of them as principally Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims or as Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, or again as Panjabi, Gujarati, Hindi, and Urdu speakers.

However, a significant number of these young people, while retaining both diasporic and local links with a variety of traditions derived from the Indian subcontinent, are nevertheless fundamentally shaped by an everyday low-key Britishness - a Britishness with new infections. This sensibility marks them as Brasians."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-202) and index.