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Date: 14-Mar-2011
From: Mohd Bhat [ashraf at iitk.ac.in]
Subject: Identities in Transition: Changing Language Roles in the Kashmiri Speech Community
 

	
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Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:59:01
From: Mohd Bhat [ashraf at iitk.ac.in]
Subject: Identities in Transition: Changing Language Roles in the Kashmiri Speech Community

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Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 
Program: Ph.D. in Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2010 

Author: Mohd Ashraf Bhat

Dissertation Title: Identities in Transition: Changing Language Roles in the
Kashmiri Speech Community 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Dissertation Director(s):
Arun Kumar Sharma
T. Ravichandran
Sadaf Munshi
Rakesh Mohan Bhatt

Dissertation Abstract:

Among the repertoire of identities, linguistic identity is the most overtly 
observable phenomenon by which various identifications like geographical 
background, social origin, level of education, gender, intelligence, ethnicity, 
age, and affability are positioned and articulated. As noted by Le Page and 
Tabouret-Keller, every speech act is perceived as an 'act of identity' and a 
single phonemic feature may be sufficient to include or exclude somebody 
from any social group. Accordingly, this research primarily aims at 
investigating the linguistic assertions of community identities in the 
multilingual context of the Kashmiri speech community by essentially 
focussing on the dimensions of changing language roles and linguistic 
practices. It employs triangulation of quantitative and qualitative 
methodologies and multiple sources of data, which provide any space for 
the assertion of linguistic identities implicitly or explicitly. The data collected 
for the study explicates that among the crucial factors, script uncertainty, 
interlingual diglossia, the state language policies, collective attitudes, 
separatist movement, intergenerational transmission, attrition, and literary, 
religious and media discourses are significantly accountable for reshaping 
and changing the language roles, and subsequently, resulting in the 
transition of linguistic identities. This study illustrates how instrumental 
orientation and integrative motivation are engaged for Urdu in terms of 
prestige, identity, mobility, and advancement; while for English, the 
acceptability is largely instrumental in nature, and for Kashmiri, it is merely 
that of symbolic reification. Within this framework, the study measures the 
nature and the extent of the language attrition of Kashmiri among the non-
pathological population. It finally demonstrates that the attrition,loss, shift 
and changing of language roles are principally motivated by various 
linguistic and extra-linguistic factors, which may remarkably lead to the 
demise of the distinct symbol and the last roots of Kashmiryat - the Kashmiri 
linguistic-cultural identity, in favour of the nonnative code, Urdu, which might 
emerge as the primary linguistic identity in the near future. 


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