The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya
This highly original and timely collection brings together case studies from salient areas of the Himalayan region to explore the politics of language contact. Promoting a linguistically and historically grounded perspective, The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya offers nuanced insights into language and its relation to power in this geopolitically complex region.
Edited by respected scholars in the field, the collection comprises five new research contributions by established and...
Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 30 avril 2020
ISBN numérique : 978-1-78374-706-1
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2019
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-78374-704-7
Nombre de pages : xiii-181
Selma K. Sonntag et Mark Turin
PrefaceSelma K. Sonntag
Introduction: Language Politics and Language ContactSonam Lhundrop, Hiroyuki Suzuki et Gerald Roche
1. Language Contact and the Politics of Recognition amongst Tibetans in the People’s Republic of ChinaThe rTa’u-Speaking ‘Horpa’ of Khams
Uma Pradhan
3. Transforming Language to ScriptConstructing Linguistic Authority through Language Contact in Schools in Nepal
Maya Daurio
4. The Significance of Place in Ethnolinguistic VitalitySpatial Variations Across the Kaike-Speaking Diaspora of Nepal
Bendi Tso et Mark Turin
5. Speaking Chone, Speaking ‘Shallow’Dual Linguistic Hegemonies in China’s Tibetan Frontier
Mark Turin
6. Concluding Thoughts on Language Shift and Linguistic Diversity in the HimalayaThe Case of Nepal
This highly original and timely collection brings together case studies from salient areas of the Himalayan region to explore the politics of language contact. Promoting a linguistically and historically grounded perspective, The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya offers nuanced insights into language and its relation to power in this geopolitically complex region.
Edited by respected scholars in the field, the collection comprises five new research contributions by established and early-career researchers who have been significantly engaged in the Himalayan region. Grounded in a commitment to theoretically informed area studies, and covering Tibet (China), Assam (India), and Nepal, each case study is situated within contemporary debates in sociolinguistics, political science, and language policy and planning. Bridging disciplines and transcending nation-states, the volume offers a unique contribution to the study of language contact and its political implications.
The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya is essential reading for researchers in the fields of language policy and planning, applied linguistics, and language and literary education. The detailed introduction and concluding commentary make the collection accessible to all social scientists concerned with questions of language, and the volume as a whole will be of interest to scholars in anthropology, sociolinguistics, political science and Asian studies.
Selma K. Sonntag (dir.)
Selma K. Sonntag is Professor Emerita of Politics at Humboldt State University in California and Affiliate Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research area is the politics of language, primarily in South Asia, but also in the United States, Europe and South Africa. Her numerous publications on language politics in South Asia have appeared in Language Policy, The Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, and Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, among other journals, as well as in over a dozen edited volumes. Her books include The Local Politics of Global English: Case Studies in Linguistic Globalization (2003) and State Traditions and Language Regimes (2015). Dr. Sonntag was a Research Fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute for Advanced Studies in New Delhi in spring 2012 and the recipient of two Fulbright research awards. She recently completed her tenure as chair of the Research Committee on the Politics of Language of the International Political Science Association.
Mark Turin (dir.)
Mark Turin is an anthropologist, linguist and occasional radio presenter. An Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Mark has held research and teaching appointments at Yale, Cambridge, Cornell and Leipzig universities. He directs the World Oral Literature Project, an urgent global initiative to document and make accessible endangered oral literatures before they disappear without record, and the Digital Himalaya Project, which he co-founded in 2000 as a platform to make multimedia resources from the Himalayan region widely available online. Mark has worked in the Himalayan region (Nepal, northern India and Bhutan) since 1992 and is the author or co-author of four books, numerous articles, the editor of nine volumes, and edits a series on oral literature.

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