Sonia N Das

Linguistic Rivalries

Tamil Migrants and Anglo-Franco Conflicts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Linguistic Rivalries weaves together anthropological accounts of diaspora, nation, and empire to explore and analyze the multi-faceted processes of globalization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780190461782
• ISBN-10: 0190461780
• Artikelnr.: 47870511

Autorenporträt

Sonia N. Das is Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at New York University. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Michigan and B.A. in Anthropology and B.S. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia, taught at a high school in Louisiana, and has published in top anthropology journals in French and English.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration and Orthography
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Purism Across the Seas
Chapter Three: Narratives of a Diaspora
Chapter Four: A Heritage Language Industry
Chapter Five: Inscribing the ?r
Chapter Six: Navigating the Cosmopolis
Chapter Seven: Conclusion
Appendix
Glossary
References