Contents
Acknowledgements (5) About the Editors (6) The Contributors (7) Editor’s Preface (11) Introduction (13)
Part I: Language, Politics and Policy (15)
1. Bihar’s Language Policies: Recognition of Maithili as a Medium of Primary Education (16) M. K Jha
2. Hindi in Colonial Bihar: Politics of Language and the Colonial Project (26) Sabiha Hashmi
Part II: Linguistic History and Linguistic Landscaping (43)
3. Magahi Through the Ages (44) C. L. Khatri
4. Transliteration and Code-Mixing: Prevailing Phenomena in Linguistic Ecology of Bihar (48) Nusrat Begum & Sweta Sinha
5. Linguistic Landscape of Bihar (52) Priyanka Shukla & Shailendra Kumar Singh
6. Variations in Bhojpuri: A Sociolinguistic Study (63) Tariq Khan & Manish Kumar Singh
Part III: Socio-pragmatism, Gender and Communication Strategy (75)
7. Gendered Bihar: An Investigative Study at the Interface of Language-Gender-Power (76) Sandeep Kumar Sharma & Sweta Sinha
8. Sex-related Taboo Words and Euphemistic strategies used by Bajjika Speakers: A Sociolinguistic Study (82) Muskaan
9. A Semasiological Sociopragmatic Investigation of Magahi Idioms: Towards Interfacing Language-Culture (93) Sweta Sinha
10. Bhojpuri Cinema: Issues of Small Cinema, Regionalism and Sub-nationalism (101) Nirmal Kumar
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11. Non-Canonical Cases in Bihari Languages (108) Bornini Lahiri
12. A Corpus-based Study of Semantics of Bare Nominals in Magahi and Bhojpuri: The Case of Article-less Languages (116) Deepak Alok, Atul Kr. Ojha & Sriniket Mishra
13. Commonness of Verb Root in MBM Languages (128) Shailendra Kumar Singh
14. Language Contact and Syntactic Convergence: A Case Study of Aspects in Maithili (135) Abhinav Kumar Mishra & Amit Kr. Chandr ana
15. Mixed Transitivity in Bhojpuri Complex Predicates (139) Manish Kumar Singh
Part V: Undivided Bihar, Mixed Language and Greater Region (149)
16. Kurmali: A Language of Undivided Bihar (150) Bornini Lahiri
17. Descriptive Study of Eastern Hindi: A Mixed Language (156) Ritesh Kumar, Bornini Lahiri & Deepak Alok
18. Indo- Aryan Tribal Languages: A Critical Sociolinguistic Study of Greater Eastern Region (167) S. S. Bhattacharya
19. Vanishing Identity of Migrants in Bihar: An Ethno- linguistic Sketch of Lathor Community (173) Ravina Toppo, Ratul Mahela, Nusrat Begum, Sandeep Kumar Sharma & Sweta Sinha
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