Sri Lankan Tamil experiences of the home-land and host-land

The interaction between language and diasporic identity

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ID2898640
AuthorsLavanya Sankaran (0000-0002-0241-8609, King's College London, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume51
Issue1
Pages143-166
Publication date2022-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404520000731
OpenAlexW3084206244
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited45

This article takes an empirical approach to investigate how diasporic identification with the home-land and host-land interacts with language in a mutually influencing dynamic interplay, giving rise to new language ideologies and identities. Since scholars are increasingly of the opinion that the processes of dislocation and resettlement create multi-layered connections with the home-land and host-land (David 2012:377), it is crucial we recognise that the relationship between fixed geographical territories and communities, and the cultural-linguistic practices associated with them, need to be denaturalised (Rosa & Trivedi 2017:331). In doing so, it is possible to retheorise diasporic identity as a sociocultural process. Attention to language can help shift diasporic phenomena away from being defined as 'bounded, territorialised, static and homogeneous' (Canagarajah & Silberstein 2012:82). Examining Sri Lankan Tamil diasporic experiences of the home-land and host-land and their relationship with language will promote such an agenda. (Diaspora, space, home-land, host-land

Aesthetics · Diaspora · Host (biology) · Identity (music) · Ideology · Linguistics · Political science · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Tamil · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Ecology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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