Linguistic rivalries : Tamil migrants and Anglo-Franco conflicts / Sonia N. Das.

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Das, Sonia N [author.]

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TextSeries: Oxford studies in the anthropology of languagePublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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9780190461799
0190461799
9780190461805
0190461802
9780190461805

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Linguistic rivalries.DDC classification:

306.442948110714/28 23

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PL4751 .D325 2016eb

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Contents:

Introduction -- Purism across the seas -- Narratives of a diaspora -- A heritage language industry -- Inscribing the ur -- Navigating the cosmopolis -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Glossary.

Scope and content: "This book 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 20th and early 21st 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. 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."-- Provided by publisher

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"This book 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 20th and early 21st 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. 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."-- Provided by publisher

Introduction -- Purism across the seas -- Narratives of a diaspora -- A heritage language industry -- Inscribing the ur -- Navigating the cosmopolis -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Glossary.