In N. Krishnaswamy and Lalitha Krishnaswamy's The Story of English in India, which of the following are…
The three factors are linguistic nationalism, the recognition of dialects through structural linguistics, and the growing English-using community's desire for Western…
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In N. Krishnaswamy and Lalitha Krishnaswamy's The Story of English in India, which of the following are the three factors identified as greatly influencing the notion of ‘Indian English’:
(i) Nationalist sentiments that favoured linguistic nationalism and the recognition for our variety of English.
(ii) The strong justification of a distinctive variety of English advocated and used by Indian litterateurs.
(iii) The growth of structural linguistics and its branch, dialectology, which supported the notion that dialects should also be given recognition.
(iv) The growing number of users of English in India and their desire to get it recognized by the West.
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Correct answer C
The three factors are linguistic nationalism, the recognition of dialects through structural linguistics, and the growing English-using community's desire for Western recognition. Advocacy by Indian literary writers is not one of the three factors enumerated in this account.
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