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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 10:41:28
From: Carolyn Napolitano [Carolyn.Napolitano at oup.com]
Subject: Linguistic Rivalries: Das

 


Title: Linguistic Rivalries 
Subtitle: Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco Conflicts 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Anthropology of Language  

Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/linguistic-rivalries-9780190461782 


Author: Sonia N. Das

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190461775 Pages: 296 Price: U.S. $ 99.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780190461782 Pages: 296 Price: U.S. $ 39.95


Abstract:

Linguistic Rivalries weaves together anthropological accounts of diaspora,
nation, and empire to explore and analyze the multi-faceted processes of
globalization characterizing the migration and social integration experiences
of Tamil-speaking immigrants and refugees from India and Sri Lanka to
Montréal, Québec in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In
Montréal, a city with more trilingual speakers than in any other North
American city, Tamil migrants draw on their multilingual repertoires to
navigate longstanding linguistic rivalries between anglophone and francophone,
and Indian and Sri Lankan nationalist leaders by arguing that Indians speak
"Spoken Tamil" and Sri Lankans speak "Written Tamil" as their respective
heritage languages. Drawing on ethnographic, archival, and linguistic methods
to compare and contrast the communicative practices and language ideologies of
Tamil heritage language learning in Hindu temples, Catholic churches, public
schools, and community centers, this book demonstrates how processes of
sociolinguistic differentiation are mediated by ethnonational, religious,
class, racial, and caste hierarchies. Indian Tamils showcase their use of the
"cosmopolitan" sounds and scripts of colloquial varieties of Tamil to enhance
their geographic and social mobilities, whereas Sri Lankan Tamils,
dispossessed of their homes by civil war, instead emphasize the
"primordialist" sounds and scripts of a pure "literary" Tamil to rebuild their
homeland and launch a "global" critique of racism and environmental
destruction from the diaspora. This book uses the ethnographic and archival
study of Tamil mobility and immobility to expose the mutual constitution of
elite and non-elite global modernities, defined as language ideological
projects in which migrants objectify dimensions of time and space through
scalar metaphors.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Tamil (tam)


Written In: English  (eng)

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