ACCENT VARIATION INDIAN VARIETIES ENGLH: Variolingua. Nonstandard - Standard - Substandard

This is the first major sociolinguistic work on Indian diasporic communities in Germany. It investigates accent perceptions and attitudes to variation in Indian varieties of English. 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.