What is it about?
This chapter is a brief overview of current Indian English slang, based largely on a citation database of over 15,000 records of Indian English extracted from a variety of printed sources. The chapter gives a brief background of Indian English, reviews currently available dictionaries, and provides samples of the slang lexis of Indian English in three sections: (1) borrowed slang, (2) neologisms, and (3) direct loans from Indian languages.
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Why is it important?
Indian English is a major variety of English but, unlike most other varieties, so far its slang lexis has received practically zero scholarly attention. This chapter represents a first step in redressing that imbalance.
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This page is a summary of: Global English Slang, January 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781315857787.
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