Adi Hastings
Biographic Data
| ID | 3817930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adi Hastings |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adi |
| FAMILY NAME | Hastings |
| SIGNATURE | HASTINGS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Simplifying Sanskrit
Sanskrit has long been a medium of scholarly, religious, and literary discourse throughout the South Asian subcontinent. But recently, several organizations, imagining Sanskrit as the future lingua franca and emblem of an ermergent Hindu nation, are attempting to turn Sanskrit into a truly “popular” language by encouraging the use of what they call “simple Sanskrit” in everyday conversational contexts. This essay examines several of the semiotic …
Licked by the Mother Tongue
This paper examines the ways in which Sanskrit revivalists in contemporary India imagine social contexts for the production and reproduction of Sanskrit speech. In contrast to the received view of Sanskrit as being a ritual language par excellence, opposed at every step to the domestic sphere and everyday life, Sanskrit revivalists treat Sanskrit as a "mother tongue," figuring the home as the primary site for the creation of an "everyday Sanskrit…
Introduction
From ritual to grammar
Introduction
Licked by the Mother Tongue
This paper examines the ways in which Sanskrit revivalists in contemporary India imagine social contexts for the production and reproduction of Sanskrit speech. In contrast to the received view of Sanskrit as being a ritual language par excellence, opposed at every step to the domestic sphere and everyday life, Sanskrit revivalists treat Sanskrit as a "mother tongue," figuring the home as the primary site for the creation of an "everyday Sanskrit…
From ritual to grammar
From ritual to grammar
Introduction
Licked by the Mother Tongue
This paper examines the ways in which Sanskrit revivalists in contemporary India imagine social contexts for the production and reproduction of Sanskrit speech. In contrast to the received view of Sanskrit as being a ritual language par excellence, opposed at every step to the domestic sphere and everyday life, Sanskrit revivalists treat Sanskrit as a "mother tongue," figuring the home as the primary site for the creation of an "everyday Sanskrit…
Simplifying Sanskrit
Sanskrit has long been a medium of scholarly, religious, and literary discourse throughout the South Asian subcontinent. But recently, several organizations, imagining Sanskrit as the future lingua franca and emblem of an ermergent Hindu nation, are attempting to turn Sanskrit into a truly “popular” language by encouraging the use of what they call “simple Sanskrit” in everyday conversational contexts. This essay examines several of the semiotic …
Philosophy (3 works) · Sanskrit (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Alterity (1 work)