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Author Bhat, M. Ashraf, author

Title The changing language roles and linguistic identities of the Kashmiri speech community / by M. Ashraf Bhat
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 222 pages)
Contents Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Appendices; Preface; Acknowledgements; Author's Note on Documentation; Introductory Remarks; Chapter One; 1.1. Understanding Identity[ies]; 1.2. Diversity/Multiplicity of Identities; 1.3. Theoretical Approaches; 1.4. Language-Identity Linkage; 1.5. Language-Identity Research; 1.6. Interlingual Diglossia; 1.7. Legalising Linguistic Identities; 1.8. Language Planning Versus Identity Planning; 1.9. Linguistic Identities in Cyberspace; 1.10. Language Attrition and Identity; 1.10.1. Factors of Language Attrition
1.10.2. Extra-Linguistic Factors1.10.3. Attrition, Language, and Identity Shift; 1.11. Notes on Methodology; Chapter Two; 2.1. Historical Overview; 2.2. The People and Geography; 2.3. The Kashmiri Language; 2.3.1. Dialectal Survey; 2.3.2. Script Uncertainty; 2.3.3. Literary Discourses; 2.4. Urdu in Kashmir; 2.4.1. Acceptance Factors; 2.5. Conclusion; Chapter Three; 3.1. Patterns of Language Use in the Educational Milieu; 3.2. Language Proficiencies; 3.3. Patterns of Language Use/Practices at Home; 3.4. Language Acquisition Contexts; 3.5. Acquisition of Scripts
3.6. Usage of the Language(s): A Functional Perspective3.6.1. Language Use for Counting; 3.6.2. Language(s) Employed for Thinking; 3.6.3. Language(s) Used for Religious Discourses; 3.6.4 Language(s) of Dreams; 3.6.5. Story-Telling and Arguing; 3.6.6. Kinship-calling; 3.7. Writing and Readership Practices; 3.8. Conclusion; Chapter Four; 4.1. Language Attitudes, Preferences, and Motivation; 4.2. Instrumental Orientation; 4.3. Attitudes towards the Community/Speakers of a Language; 4.4. Language Preferences for Media Discourses; 4.5. Attitudes and Self-Rated Proficiencies
4.6. Intergenerational Transmission of Languages4.7. Assertion of Identities; 4.8. Conclusion; Chapter Five; 5.1. Correlation between Linguistic Identity and Language Attrition; 5.2. Assessment of Lexical Attrition in Kashmiri; 5.3. Lexical Borrowing; 5.4. Attrition of Proverbs/Idiomatic Expressions and Rhymes; 5.5. Attrition of Kashmiri Nursery Rhymes; 5.6. Attrition of the Names of the Months; 5.7. Conclusion; Chapter Six; 6.1. Conceptual Framework; 6.2. Objectives; 6.3. Kashmiri Language and the Speech Community; 6.4. Major Outcomes; 6.5. Discussion; 6.6. Limitations
6.7. Future DirectionsAppendices; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Summary This book operates from the premise that linguistic identities are important because they make sense to people, are meaningful, and have an impact on the thinking and behaviour of individuals and groups, both overtly and covertly. The framework outlined here synthesises key works on linguistic identity and draws together insights from a range of disciplines, such as sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse analysis, cognitive sciences, and social psychology. It investigates linguistic assertions of community identity in the multilingual context of the Kashmir region in India, by st
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Subject Kashmiri (South Asian people) -- Languages -- Social aspects
Linguistics.
Literature & literary studies.
Cultural studies.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Miscellaneous.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443862608
1443862606