The contribution of this book to existing work in socio-onomastic research is its treatment of the official and unofficial names of the two Indian Christian com

This book gives a sociolinguistic account of Syrian Christian and Telugu Catholic personal names. Unlike previous works on the linguistic or sociolinguistic ana

The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics

This elegantly written book explores the practice of Christianity among the Yakoba in the small region of Kerala. Susan Viswanathan uses the categories of time,

During the twentieth century, the Syrian Christian population of Kerala underwent a process of transition in its demographic and socio-economic status. This boo