Maya Ravindranath Abtahian

List of John Benjamins publications for which Maya Ravindranath Abtahian plays a role.

Journal

Title

Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia

Edited by Maya Ravindranath Abtahian and Abigail C. Cohn

Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation 7:2 (2021) v, 132 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Ravindranath Abtahian, Maya, Abigail C. Cohn and Rebecca Lurie Starr 2021 Variation and change in the languages of Indonesia: An introductionVariation and change in the languages of Indonesia, Ravindranath Abtahian, Maya and Abigail C. Cohn (eds.), pp. 83–94 | Introduction
Ravindranath Abtahian, Maya, Abigail C. Cohn, Dwi Noverini Djenar and Rachel C. Vogel 2021 Jakarta Indonesian first-person singular pronouns: Form, function and variationVariation and change in the languages of Indonesia, Ravindranath Abtahian, Maya and Abigail C. Cohn (eds.), pp. 185–214 | Article
Jakarta Indonesian is a colloquial variety of Indonesian spoken primarily in Indonesia’s capital, where it was originally a contact variety between Betawi, the local variety of Malay, and Standard Indonesian. Like other varieties of Indonesian, Jakarta Indonesian is a language with a relatively… read more
Meyerhoff, Miriam, Maya Ravindranath Abtahian, Roey J. Gafter, Uri Horesh, Jonathan R. Kasstan, Peter Keegan and Jeanette King 2020 Styles, standards and meaning: Issues in the globalisation of sociolinguisticsStyles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages, Horesh, Uri, Jonathan R. Kasstan and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Introduction
Style, in the study of variation and change, is intimately linked with broader questions about linguistic innovation and change, standards, social norms, and individual speakers’ stances. This article examines style when applied to lesser-studied languages. Style is both (i) the product of… read more
Ravindranath Abtahian, Maya 2020 Style, identity and language shiftStyles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages, Horesh, Uri, Jonathan R. Kasstan and Miriam Meyerhoff (eds.), pp. 17–38 | Article
This study is an examination of style-shifting in the speech of a single interviewer conducting sociolinguistic interviews in Garifuna (Arawak), an endangered language spoken in Belize and along the eastern coast of Central America. It provides a case study of intraspeaker variation in the… read more
This paper examines a scenario of possible language shift in the multilingual village of Hopkins, where the two most commonly used languages are both ‘minority’ languages: Garifuna, now endangered in many of the communities where it was once spoken, and Belizean Creole (Kriol), an unofficial… read more