31.2507, Calls: Gujarati; Disc Analys, Gen Ling, Hist Ling, Socioling, Translation/India

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Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2020 11:12:01
From: Mrunal Chavda [mrunalilsass at gmail.com]
Subject: Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj: A Linguistic Exploration

 
Full Title: Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj: A Linguistic Exploration 

Date: 03-Oct-2020 - 03-Oct-2020
Location: Gujarat, India 
Contact Person: Mrunal Chavda
Meeting Email: mrunalilsass at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Translation 

Subject Language(s): Gujarati (guj)

Call Deadline: 20-Aug-2020 

Meeting Description:

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is one of the greatest communicators of our times.
Considered as seminal or foundational work, Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj charts his
philosophical ideas which have been explored in great details in many
scholarly works.  This short tract was written on his return voyage from
London to Cape Town on the deck of the ship SS Kildonan Castle in the year
1909. Inscribed on tissue roll, this work was later published in two
installments in the weekly multilingual (i.e. Hindi, Gujarati, English, and
Tamil) newspaper Indian Opinion, edited by Gandhi. However, his language
especially Gujarati needs a rigorous analysis from a linguistic point of view.
Such analysis is shadowed by examination of Gandhian ideology. The debate
whether India realized Gandhi’s dream of India hovers amongst the Gandhian
scholars. The question that Indians replaced Britishers after Independence
shadows discussion. Is there any change in the overall lifestyle or is it just
a change in the administration or government or the constitution? Hind Swaraj
appears to preach what was to be practices to prepare India for the post
Independent laborers where human values to dominate over everything else. It
was this reason Gandhi promoted the study of regional languages including his
own language i.e. Gujarati. Do we not see the reversal of this ideology? Can
this text, written and consumed in the first decade of the 20th century, guide
India in the digital era? Nearly decade earlier Himanshu Upadhyay noted
Gandhi’s intervention on standardizing Gujarati spellings. While the spelling
debate may continue parallel, Gujarati linguist, Hind Swaraj, a text in
Gujarati requires unanswered questions to be answered. Gandhi’s choice of
writing this text in Gujarati reveals an interesting entry-point for engaging
into a discourse with modern civilization through Gujarati language and
literature. Pioneering such scholarly and philosophical discourse, Gandhi
perhaps challenged writings from the Pandit Yug in the Gujarati literature.
Gandhi attempts to test this through trial and error which begins with the
Hind Swaraj and gradually matures in his autobiography My Experiments with the
Truth. 

This conference on aims to bring Gujarati Linguistics and Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj
on the same platform. Such multiple linguistic perspectives will strengthen
our understanding of not only Gandhi’s use of language but also our first
language (i.e. Gujarati). This conference on Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj attempts to
convey Gandhi’s use of Gujarati language during his times i.e. 1909. He was in
South Africa while he published this short tract. In fact, he made the
Gujarati language global language in the first decade of the 20th century.
This conference aims to investigate the powerful tool, i.e. Gujarati language,
against the British who banned the book which resulted into Gandhi translating
the same book into English. By rendering his own Gujarati work into English,
Gandhi challenged the British on their turf. He explained his vision to the
British Administration through the English language and unfortunately, the
young Gujaratis today, although familiar with Gandhi, are unaware of the tools
Gandhi used to make his vision clear through the Gujarati language.


Call for Papers: 
 
The conference Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj: A Linguistic Exploration invites
proposals addressing the above topics to bridge connectivity with Gujarati
linguistics and Gandhian scholars.

Please submit your Abstract here: https://forms.gle/DT866q2VQ5W8z1cN7 
The abstract should be not more than 250 words. Full Papers should be written
between 4000 and 6000 words. 

Key Dates: 
Abstract Submission:20 August 2020
Acceptance of Abstract: 30 August 2020
Full Paper Submission: 20 September 2020
Acceptance of Full paper: 30 September 2020




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