The Language Loss of the Indigenous (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Devy, G. N.; Chakravarty, K. K.; Davis, Geoffrey V.

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Produktbeschreibung

The volume traces the theme of the loss of indigenous language and culture in numerous post-colonial contexts. It has contributions from scholars across the globe who form a consensus to establish that various traditional and specialized languages, art forms, skills, heritages, scripts are depleting at an increasing rate due to influences of modernization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317293149
• Artikelnr.: 44862762

Autorenporträt

G. N. Devy is Founder of the Bhasha Research Centre at Baroda and Adivasi Academy at Tejgadh, Gujarat, India. He writes in three Indian languages - Marathi, Gujarati and English - and has received prestigious awards for his writings. Formerly he taught at the MS University of Baroda and the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DAIICT). He is currently Chair of the People's Linguistic Survey of India and received the civilian honour of Padma Shri from the Government of India in 2014. Geoffrey V. Davis is former Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Aachen, Germany. He has been international chair of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) and chair of the European branch. He coedits Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English and the African studies series Matatu. His publications include Staging New Britain: Aspects of Black and South Asian British Theatre Practice (2006) and African Literatures, Postcolonial Literatures in English: Sources and Resources (2013). K. K. Chakravarty, formerly in the Indian Administrative Services, has held several esteemed positions in his career as Chancellor of the National University for Educational Planning and Administration; Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi, the national academy for visual arts; and Member Secretary, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. Educated at Harvard, he has contributed several research articles to books and journals in archaeology, fine arts, philosophy and education. .

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables & figures. List of Abbreviations. Notes on editor &
contributors. Introduction: Aphasia: The Fate of the Indigenous Languages
1. Symbolic Power, Nation State and Indigenous Language: A Sociological
Analysis of Tribes in Central India 2. Text, Subtext and Context of Indian
Culture in the Developmental Paradigm of Globalization 3. Adivasi Art: The
Convergence of the Intangible and the Tangible 4. Aesthetics of
Representation: Media and Canadian Aboriginal Resistance 5. The Forgotten
Tribe - The Kuravars Of Tamil Nadu 6. Tesu and Jhenjhi: A festival
celebrating cultural life 7. Articulating Tribal Culture: The Oral
Tradition of Lambadas 8. Micro and macro intergenerational oral
communication in the Zion Christian Church 9. Sacred Places as Traditional
Heritage for the Vhavenda Indigenous Community of Limpopo Province, South
Africa 10. Translating Power, Gender and Caste: Negotiating Identity,
Memory and History: A Study of Bama's Sangati 11. Historiography or
Imagination? The Documentation of Traditional Luo Cultural Memory in Kenyan
Fiction 12. Tackling Endangered Languages in the Midst of Diversity Lachman
13. Language Shift among the Waddar Speakers 14. Towards a Revitalization
of Urhobo: An Endangered Language of Delta State, Nigeria 15. Itsekiri:
Threatened and Endangered 16. Written Kikuyu as an Under-Developed Language
Form: Evidence from an Exploration of its Phonology and Orthography 17.
Endangered! The Igbo Language Dilemma in Nigeria 18. Aspects of Discourse
Structure: A Case of Particles 19. Mobile Telephone Communication and the
Akan Language Glossary. Index.