Spoken Sanskrit

[veeranarayana Pandurangi]

dear friends,
welcome to such new studies.
but is is difficult for a naiyayika to imagine ritual transformation of
household in the context of modern sanskrit revivalism. Since I know
personally many sanskrit families here, it is nothing but some kind of
national revivalism.
thanks
veeranarayana

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Dominik Wujastyk <ucgadkw at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> There's an interesting set of reflections on the topic here:
>
> Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
> June 2008, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 24-45
> Posted online on July 28, 2008.
> (doi:10.1111/j.1548-1395.2008.00002.x)
>
> Licked by the Mother Tongue: Imagining Everyday Sanskrit at Home and in the
> World
> by Adi Hastings
>
> Abstract:
> This paper examines the ways in which Sanskrit revivalists in contemporary
> India imagine social contexts for the production and reproduction of
> Sanskrit speech. In contrast to the received view of Sanskrit as being a
> ritual language par excellence, opposed at every step to the domestic sphere
> and everyday life, Sanskrit revivalists treat Sanskrit as a "mother tongue,"
> figuring the home as the primary site for the creation of an "everyday
> Sanskrit" world and the mother as the primary agent of this process of
> Sanskritizing the domestic sphere. "Domesticating Sanskrit," the process of
> bringing the elevated ritual language down into everyday life, at the very
> same time "Sanskritizes the domestic," that is, ritually transforms or
> elevates the home into a "Sanskrit home." Moving outward from the
> Sanskritized domestic sphere, activists also imagine other contexts in which
> one could use Sanskrit, which nonetheless conforms to a notion of a Sanskrit
> interiority or domesticity.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Dr Dominik Wujastyk
> Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow
> University College London
>
>


-- 
Veeranarayana N.K. Pandurangi
Head, Dept of Darshanas,
Yoganandacharya Bhavan,
Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Samskrita University, Madau, post
Bhankrota, Jaipur, 302026.