MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 03028cam a22004098i 4500
001 2015039130
003 DLC
005 20151121083223.0
008 151023s2016 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015039130
020 $a9780190461782 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $z9780190461775 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $z9780190461799 (ebook)
020 $z9780190461805 (online content)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-cn---
050 00 $aPL4751$b.D325 2016
082 00 $a306.442948110714/28$223
100 1 $aDas, Sonia N.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aLinguistic rivalries :$bTamil migrants and Anglo-Franco conflicts /$cSonia N. Das.
263 $a1606
264 1 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c[2016]
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aOxford studies in the anthropology of language
520 2 $a"This book weaves together anthropological accounts of diaspora, nation, and empire to explore and analyze the multi-faceted processes of globalization characterizing the migration and social integration experiences of Tamil-speaking immigrants and refugees from India and Sri Lanka to Montréal, Québec in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In Montréal, a city with more trilingual speakers than in any other North American city, Tamil migrants draw on their multilingual repertoires to navigate longstanding linguistic rivalries between anglophone and francophone, and Indian and Sri Lankan nationalist leaders by arguing that Indians speak "Spoken Tamil" and Sri Lankans speak "Written Tamil" as their respective heritage languages. Drawing on ethnographic, archival, and linguistic methods to compare and contrast the communicative practices and language ideologies of Tamil heritage language learning in Hindu temples, Catholic churches, public schools, and community centers, this book demonstrates how processes of sociolinguistic differentiation are mediated by ethnonational, religious, class, racial, and caste hierarchies. This book uses the ethnographic and archival study of Tamil mobility and immobility to expose the mutual constitution of elite and non-elite global modernities, defined as language ideological projects in which migrants objectify dimensions of time and space through scalar metaphors." --$cProvided by publisher
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Purism across the seas -- Narratives of a diaspora -- A heritage language industry -- Inscribing the ur -- Navigating the cosmopolis -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Glossary.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aTamil language$xSocial aspects$zCanada$zMontreal.
650 0 $aTamil diaspora$xSocial aspects$zCanada$zMontreal.
650 0 $aAnthropological linguistics$zCanada$zMontreal.
650 0 $aSociolinguistics$zCanada$zMontreal.
650 0 $aLanguages in contact$zCanada$zMontreal.
650 0 $aTamil language$xUsage.