Linguistic Dynamism in South Asia

South Asia considered as the richest linguistic region of the world. It presents with a bewildering variety of regional dialects, social dialects, formal and informal registers, literary standards, languages, writing systems, and language families. In this book a broad range of topics in South Asian languages has been analyzed and discussed. More than three hundred languages are spoken in South Asia than in any other region of the world. Many of these languages are however only dialects of a parent language. Language attitude examines the way external factors have influenced and are influencing language change, focusing on how changing social contexts are reflected in language use. Language change explores the attitudes, values and assumptions that shape the way we use language. In this study it has been seen that how language change operates within different genres. This edition may not only open new perspective in different areas it presents, but will also incite scholars and academicians to further this kind of study in both scope and depth.