[lg policy] Fwd: Treatment of Language in the National Education Policy

Wed Sep 30 14:29:35 UTC 2015

All:  this messsage may be of interest.

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From: Sreekumar Prabhakaran <pskduindia at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:41 AM
Subject: Re: Treatment of Language in the National Education Policy
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*Comments*

This is a response from a Prof. Bernard S Comrie
<http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/bernard-comrie> a linguist with
world repute and good friend of India. I cite from his comments “*Protection
for potentially threatened languages needs ideally to start before they are
endangered. *This can be an imperative to Indian.

Regarding the proposal of ‘Indology’ again i cite*  [..]one no longer has
departments of Indology, Sinology, etc., but rather of Indian/South Asian
Studies, Chinese Studies, where a particular region is studied from various
perspectives (e.g. linguistic, literary, historical, socio-cultural, etc.).
(In German-speaking countries, by contrast, the corresponding terms
Indologie, Sinologie are still quite usual.). When you discuss about
Indology his observation help us as a statement of fact across the world.  *

*We should be thankful to Prof.* *Bernard S Comrie for spending time for
our nation. I am very seriously waiting ti listen from Prof. Anvita Abbi *

To: P. Sreekumar

From: Bernard Comrie

Date:   2015 Sep 29

Subj:    Treatment of Language in the National Education Policy

Dear Professor Sreekumar:

Thank you for sending me your thoughtful comments on the government's
paper. I have just a couple of things to add from my perspective, though of
course my unfamiliarity with the details of the situation means that I
can't attempt to be as thorough as you are.

1. I was somewhat surprised by the use of the terms "resuscitate and
rejuvenate". Both of these suggest a rather advanced state of decline, and
as we know from experience the further a language is on the endangerment
path, the harder it is to do anything successful about it. *Protection for
potentially threatened languages needs ideally to start before they are
endangered.* Maybe the terms should at least include "maintain", or perhaps
better "preserve", in addition to "resuscitate and rejuvenate". I leave it
up to you to decide whether you want to work this into your comments.

2. I'm not sure to what extent your objection to "Indology" is to the term
or to whatever concept the government paper is trying to get across. In
English, such terms strike me as old-fashioned, i.e*. one no longer has
departments of Indology, Sinology, etc., but rather of Indian/South Asian
Studies, Chinese Studies, where a particular region is studied from various
perspectives (e.g. linguistic, literary, historical, socio-cultural, etc.).
(In German-speaking countries, by contrast, the corresponding terms
Indologie, Sinologie are still quite usual.)* I presume that in any
country's educational system the pupils are educated about their own
country from at least some of these perspectives. This might or might not
be a separate subject, probably not, but would be divided across several
subjects, e.g. Literature, History, etc. So I think the more important
issue would be how such knowledge is to be incorporated into the Indian
educational curriculum, rather than which term is used, or whether all such
teaching is grouped under a single subject name.

I hope these comments from an outside perspective are helpful.

Best,

Bernard C.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:30 PM, P. Sreekumar, Dravidian University <
linguafranka at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear all
> The Ministry of Human Resource Department of Government of India is in the
> making of a New Education Policy to the nation. The twenty themes are under
> circulation for public opinion and made available on
> http://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/upload_document/Themes_questions_HE.pdf
>   I have been reading the theme number XIV Promote Cultural Integration
> through language of the National Education Policy consultation document of
> Higher education.  The theme paper is attached and with my response on it.
> What is your reflection about the theme?
> PS: There are two attaches; theme and response
> With respect
> Sree
>
> P. Sreekumar
> Assistant Professor
> Dept. of Dravidian and Computational Linguistics
> Dravidian University,  Kuppam, Chittor (dist)
> Andhra Pradesh, INDIA
> Pin. 517 426
> http://dravidian.academia.edu/PrabhakaranSreekumar
> http://www.dravidianuniversity.ac.in/cvs/linguistics/sreekumar.pdf
>
>

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P. Sreekumar
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Dravidian and Computational Linguistics
Dravidian University,  Kuppam, Chittor (dist)
Andhra Pradesh, INDIA
Pin. 517 426
http://dravidian.academia.edu/PrabhakaranSreekumar
http://www.dravidianuniversity.ac.in/cvs/linguistics/sreekumar.pdf

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 Harold F. Schiffman

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 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
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