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Identities In Transition: Changing Language Roles In The Kashmiri Speech
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Course / Degree: PhD
Institution / University: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Published in: 2013
Among the repertoire of identities, linguistic identity is the most overtly observable phenomenon by which various identifications like geographical background, social origin, level of education, gender, intelligence, ethnicity, age, and affability are positioned and articulated. As noted by Le Page and Tabouret-Keller, every speech act is perceived as an 'act of identity' and a single phonemic feature may be sufficient to include or exclude somebody from any social group. Accordingly, this research primarily aims at investigating the linguistic assertions of community identities in the multilingual context of the Kashmiri speech community by essentially focussing on the dimensions of changing language roles and linguistic practices. It employs triangulation of quantitative and qualitative methodologies and multiple sources of data, which provide any space for the assertion of linguistic identities implicitly or explicitly.
The data collected for the study explicates that among the crucial factors, script uncertainty, interlingual diglossia, the state language policies, collective attitudes, separatist movement, intergenerational transmission, attrition, and literary, religious and media discourses are significantly accountable for reshaping and changing the language roles, and subsequently, resulting in the transition of linguistic identities. This study illustrates how instrumental orientation and integrative motivation are engaged for Urdu in terms of prestige, identity, mobility, and advancement; while for English, the acceptability is largely instrumental in nature, and for Kashmiri, it is merely that of symbolic reification. Within this framework, the study measures the nature and the extent of the language attrition of Kashmiri among the non-pathological population. It finally demonstrates that the attrition,loss, shift and changing of language roles are principally motivated by various linguistic and extra-linguistic factors, which may remarkably lead to the demise of the distinct symbol and the last roots of Kashmiryat - the Kashmiri linguistic-cultural identity, in favour of the nonnative code, Urdu, which might emerge as the primary linguistic identity in the near future.
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Language, Identity, Urdu, Kashmiri, attrition
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Submission Details: Thesis Abstract submitted by Ashraf Bhat from India on 04-Apr-2013 11:55.
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