Rewriting the past and reimagining the future
The social life of a Tamil heritage language industry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2279275 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sonia N Da (0000-0001-7025-1815, New York University, corresponding author), Sonia Neela Das |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 774-789 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01336.x |
| OpenAlex | W2131096066 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 33 |
Globally circulating discourses associated with heritage language industries often promote temporally dichotomous views of spoken and written languages that deny coeval status to linguistic minorities. In the multilingual city of Montreal, Quebec, where Sri Lankan refugees work to preserve a classicalist style of Written Tamil and Indian immigrants work to revitalize a modernist style of Spoken Tamil, this division of labor is undermined by elders and youth who, in mixing colloquial and literary styles of Tamil, French, and English, reframe curricular and nationalist discourses of language loss and degeneration into more empowering narratives of developmental progress and ethnolinguistic identification
Art · Cognitive reframing · Heritage language · Immigration · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Nationalism · Political science · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Tamil · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Indigeneity and linguistic heritage practices in evangelical Quechua
Heritage language, racialization, and (post-)colonialism
Whose language is it anyway? Challenges to Tamil language revitalisation efforts in Myanmar
Material and Digital Identity Negotiation of Francophone Music Artists
Linguistic Anthropology in 2012
Invitations to Love
Intangible Heritage as Metacultural Production1
Language and Political Economy
World Heritage and Cultural Economics
Passions of the Tongue
Multilingual Codeswitching in Quebec Rap
The Talk of Tamils in Multilingual Montreal
Commercial radio
Diglossia
An Innovative Program for Primary ESL Students in Quebec
What Does Language Remember
Codeswitching and consciousness in the European periphery
Spaces of multilingualism
The Rise of an Intercultural Nation
Globalization, the new economy, and the commodification of language and identity
Standard Language and Socio-Historical Parameters
Language Revitalization and New Technologies
Language And Political Economy
The Value of Words and the Meaning of Things in Eastern Indonesian Exchange
A Semiotic Ontology of the Commodity
Simultaneity and Bivalency as Strategies in Bilingualism
When Talk Isn't Cheap
Traditional, transnational, and cosmopolitan
Outside the glass case
Sharing culture or selling out? Developing the commodified persona in the heritage industry
Between Convergence and Divergence
From Landlords to Software Engineers
Semiotics and the social analysis of material things
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |