[PDF] The Changing Language Roles And Linguistic Identities Of The Kashmiri Speech Community eBook

Author : M. Ashraf Bhat
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1443862606

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This book operates from the premise that linguistic identities are important because they make sense to people, are meaningful, and have an impact on the thinking and behaviour of individuals and groups, both overtly and covertly. The framework outlined here synthesises key works on linguistic identity and draws together insights from a range of disciplines, such as sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis, cognitive sciences, and social psychology. It investigates linguistic assertions of community identity in the multilingual context of the Kashmir region in India, by studying the dimensions of changing language roles and linguistic practices in relation to the process of creating and maintaining new linguistic identities under different circumstances. It examines the nature of changing language roles as a combination of several linguistic and extra-linguistic factors, which include script uncertainty, interlingual diglossia, language attrition, language policies of the state, collective attitudes towards language(s), corresponding speech communities, intergenerational transmission, and instrumental orientation, among others. It demonstrates that changes in role are principally motivated by various factors, which may lead to the demise of the distinct symbol and roots of the Kashmiri linguistic-cultural identity in favour of the non-native code, Urdu, which could emerge as the primary linguistic identity in the near future.

Author : Rajesh Kumar
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1527522679

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This book explores the instrumentality of language in constructing identity in contemporary society. The processes of globalization, hyper-mobility, rapid urbanization, and the increasing desire of local populations to be linked to the global community have created a pressing need to reconfigure identity in this new world order. Following the digital revolution, both traditional and new media are dissolving linguistic boundaries. The centrality of language in organizing communities and groups cannot be overstated: our social order is developed alongside our linguistic allegiance, shared narratives, collective memories, and common social history. Keeping in mind the fluidity of identity, the book brings together fourteen chapters providing cultural and social perspectives. The ideas reflected here draw on a range of disciplines, such as psychology, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, the politics of language, and linguistic identity.

Author : Shonaleeka Kaul
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 2018-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 019909330X

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What is history? How does a land become a homeland? How are cultural identities formed? The Making of Early Kashmir explores these questions in relation to the birth of Kashmir and the discursive and material practices that shaped it up to the 12th century CE. Reinterpreting the first work of Kashmiri history, Kalhana’s Rajatarangini, this book argues that the text was history not despite being traditional Sanskrit poetry but because of it. It elaborated a poetics of place, implicating Kashmir’s sacred geography, a stringent critique of local politics, and a regional selfhood that transcended the limits of vernacularism.Combined with longue durée testimonies from art, material culture, script, and linguistics, this book jettisons the image of an isolated and insular Kashmir. It proposes a cultural formation that straddled the Western Himalayas and the Indic plains with Kashmir as the pivot. This is the story of the connected histories of the region and the rest of India.

Author : Bogum Yoon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 2022-12-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 166690712X

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This book provides educators with foundational knowledge on how students’ native languages influence their learning of English language and literacy. Linguistically diverse students increasingly populate current classrooms, and it is important for educators to have general linguistic and cross-linguistic knowledge to provide students with equitable access to the language and content of school. By discussing English language learners’ (ELLs) primary language norms, positive and negative transfer, and culturally sustaining resources, this book helps educators understand how to support ELLs’ use of their primary language as an asset when engaging in English language and literacy learning experiences.

Author : Christopher Stroud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1136687238

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Language, Literacy and Diversity brings together researchers who are leading the innovative and important re-theorization of language and literacy in relation to social mobility, multilingualism and globalization. The volume examines local and global flows of people, language and literacy in relation to social practice; the role (and nature) of boundary maintenance or disruption in global, transnational and translocal contexts; and the lived experiences of individuals on the front lines of global, transnational and translocal processes. The contributors pay attention to the dynamics of multilingualism in located settings and the social and personal management of multilingualism in socially stratified and ethnically plural social settings. Together, they offer ground-breaking research on language practices and documentary practices as regards to access, selection, social mobility and gate-keeping processes in a range of settings across several continents: Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe.

Author : Omkar N. Koul
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 23,76 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134931182

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Kashmir boasts a language which challenges every field of linguistics. Kashmiri is spoken by approximately 3,000,000 people. Its syntax, similar to Germanic and other verb second languages, has raised many significant issues within current generative theories proposed by Chomsky and other prominent linguists.

Author : Chitralekha Zutshi
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Islam and politics
ISBN : 9781850657002

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Using local language sources and every important archive, this major history of the formation of Kashmir shows precisely how the Kashmir Valley assumed the position it has come to occupy in postcolonial South Asia."--Jacket.

Author : Omkar Nath Koul
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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It is collection of papers related to linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of Kashmiri. The papers deal with the structure of Kashmiri language, language and society, personal names, kinship terms, modes of greetings, modes of address, lexical borrowings, and standardization of the Kashmiri script. Dr. Omkar N Koul has held various positions in Govt of India. He was Prinicipal of NRLC, Patiala, Professor at the LBSNNAA Mussoorie, Professor-cum-Deputy Director, and Director of the CIIL, Mysore. the CIIL.