8 Citations
Revisiting Ferguson's defining cases of diglossia
- Linguistics
- 2013
Abstract While the defining cases of diglossia offered in Charles Ferguson's 1959 article have long been useful as vehicles for introducing this important form of societal multilingualism, they are…
Une division sociale du travail linguistique : enseigner le tamoul comme langue d’origine à Montréal, Québec
- Art
- 2016
Les politiques nationalistes et internationales exercent des influences diverses sur la valeur economique et le capital social rattaches a des varietes de tamoul, enseignees comme deux langues…
Rewriting the past and reimagining the future: The social life of a Tamil heritage language industry
- Sociology, Linguistics
- 2011
Globally circulating discourses associated with heritage language industries often promote temporally dichotomous views of spoken and written languages that deny coeval status to linguistic…
Between Convergence and Divergence: Reformatting Language Purism in the Montreal Tamil Diasporas
- Sociology
- 2008
This article examines how ideologies of language purism are reformatted by creating interdiscursive links across spatial and temporal scales. I trace convergences and divergences between South Asian…
Between text and talk: Expertise, normativity, and scales of belonging in the Montreal Tamil diasporas
- Sociology
- 2008
Diglossia: A Bibliographic Review.
- Linguistics
- 1992
The bibliography following the body of this paper contains a total of 1,092 entries on the subject of diglossia. Entries dealing with diglossia in the classical sense of Ferguson (1959) and in the…
The case of the nonce loan in Tamil
- Linguistics
- 1990
Nonce borrowings in the speech of bilinguals differ from established loanwords in that they are not necessarily recurrent, widespread, or recognized by host language monolinguals. With established…
Language Policy in South Asia
- LinguisticsAnnual Review of Applied Linguistics
- 1981
In the political divisions within South Asia there has traditionally been no organized effort for language policies.1 Language was essentially related to one's caste, village, district, and state.…
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NOTES ON TRANSITIVITY AND THEME IN ENGLISH. PART 2
- Linguistics
- 1967
It is planned to publish this paper in three parts, in this and the two subsequent issues of the Journal of Linguistics. The three parts will consist respectively of the numbered sections 1–3, 4–7…