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  • 4 - Social Cohesion and Emerging Standards of Hindi in a Multilingual Context

  • from Part I - Revisiting Models and Theories of Language Standardization
  • Edited by Wendy Ayres-Bennett, University of Cambridge, John Bellamy, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Language Standardization
    Published online:
    01 July 2021
    Print publication:
    22 July 2021, pp 115-138

  • Summary

    This chapter presents the futility of a monolithic model of standard language in the context of multilingual and multicultural India. It focuses on contact dynamics that interact in Indian multilingual and plurilingual societies to motivate speakers to accept a contact-induced variety as the norm. Conventionally, the process of standardization has been seen as promoting invariance or uniformity in language by imposing a particular variety. However, the multilingual mosaic of many countries such as India offers a model of standardization which accommodates variation to suit the specific needs of the community, granting prestige and acceptance to a non-standard variety for social cohesion. The language in question is Hindi. The chapter also draws attention to the danger of vanishing indigenous tribal languages under the pressure of one uniform standard language.