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English and Hindi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2008

Yamuna Kachru
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This study provides a fragment of a contrastive analysis of written texts from Hindi and English. Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language used in South Asia in several varieties by approximately three hundred million people. It is one of the four major world language in terms of number of speakers. In this study, I present a number of sample texts from Hindi, both of the narrative and the expository kind, and discuss them in the theoretical frameworks of contemporary discourse analysis.

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Linguistics and Written Discourse in Particular Languages
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 3 , March 1982 , pp. 50 - 77
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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