CAS Event - You Speak "Written" and I Write "Spoken": Generational Disjunctures of a Montreal Tamil Heritage Language Industry"

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    FROM: The Center for Asian Studies

    SENDER: Julie Kang

    DATE: April 13, 2010

    SUBJECT: CAS Event - You Speak "Written" and I Write "Spoken": Generational Disjunctures of a Montreal Tamil Heritage Language Industry"

    CAS Speaker Series: "You Speak 'Written' and I Write 'Spoken': Generational
    Disjunctures of a Montreal Tamil Heritage Language Industry"

    Friday, April 16 at 4 p.m. in Hale 230

    Dr. Sonia Das' research is the first comparative study of Indian Tamils and
    Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada, a region with the largest and fastest growing
    Tamil-speaking population outside of South Asia. Because the linguistic
    nationalist state of Quebec officially recognizes ethnolinguistic and not
    ethnonational groups, to be recognized as having different ethnic
    affiliations many Indian Tamils and Sri Lankan Tamils in Montreal claim to
    speak grammatically different or mutually unintelligible languages. Local
    heritage language schools have consequently developed different language
    programs for "Spoken Tamil"-speaking Indian Tamils and "Written
    Tamil"-speaking Sri Lankan Tamils. In this talk, Dr. Das explores the
    implications of generational disjunctures between linguistic ideology and
    practice in transforming local and transnational sociolinguistic
    hierarchies.

    Dr. Sonia Das is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Teaching Fellow in the
    Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in
    Vancouver. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of
    Michigan in 2008 and has a Graduate Certificate in South Asian Studies. As a
    linguistic and cultural anthropologist, she is broadly interested in topics
    of multilingualism, heritage language education, sociolinguistic scales,
    semiotics, race and ethnicity, and transnationalism.

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