[INDOLOGY] INDOLOGY Digest, Vol 26, Issue 30

Mon Mar 30 16:08:44 UTC 2015

Dear J Silk
can you share pdf of the article? it will be helpful to check the content
and authenticity.
regards
Rupali Mokashi
On 30-Mar-2015 9:32 pm, <indology-request at list.indology.info> wrote:

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> Dear List members,
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> We are pleased to forward the call for papers for the "International
> Conference: Indian Languages in Diaspora"
> and we thank you for posting the information.
> Thanks and Best wishes
> Appasamy Murugaiyan.
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> INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
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>       INDIAN LANGUAGES IN DIASPORAS
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> STRATEGIES OF RETENTION AND MODES OF TRANSMISSION
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> 29-31 October 2015, M?morial ACTe, Pointe-?-Pitre, Guadeloupe
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> *CALL FOR PAPERS***
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> */Languages of the conference: French and English/*
> All interested participants are requested to send an abstract, in
> English or in French, *before 30 April 2015.***
> For more details, please visit the conference website:
> http://ildconference2015.cgpli.org/
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> *RATIONALE*
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>              For more than three decades, the Indian diaspora has been
> the subject of many discussions and studies among researchers interested
> in the historical and economic aspects as well as the anthropological,
> social and political dimensions of migration. However, the presence of
> Indian languages and their role ??within these diaspora populations have
> so far attracted very limited interest than expected. Of all the
> elements of identity (re)construction, language retention and
> transmission is the most problematic. Retention and transmission of the
> diasporic Indian languages may be mapped along a continuum ranging from
> disappearance or extreme marginalization to recovery, preservation and
> promotion through socio-cultural organizations or, in the ideal
> situation, by the State.
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>              The conference focuses on the languages of origin (*LO*) of
> the Indian diaspora societies, immigrated during the /historical period
> of indenture/ that is from 1834 to 1920, known as the historical or old
> diaspora. They are settled in the following countries and areas:
> Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles, South
> Africa, Fiji, Guyana, Suriname, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Trinidad and
> Tobago. They belong to the two main linguistic groups of the
> sub-continent: The *Indo-Aryan group*: Hindi (Awadhi & Bhojpuri), Urdu,
> Marathi, Gujarati, Sindhi, Punjabi and Konkani; and the*Dravidian
> group*: Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam.
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> *            The objective of the Conference is to provide a forum for
> discussion and interaction among researchers and educators on
> theoretical language retention and transmission issues in diasporic
> contexts, enhanced by relevant country-based case studies.*
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>              The conference, being hosted in Guadeloupe, will pay
> particular attention to the Indian diaspora people settled in the French
> overseas departments (DOM): La R?union, Guadeloupe and Martinique. It is
> important to highlight that most of them are of South Indian origin and
> claim Tamil as their language and culture.
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>              The focus of the present Conference lies on two related
> aspects of the Indian language ??diasporic situation as part of the
> process of identity construction:
> 1. Strategies of language retention
> 2. Modes of language transmission
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> WORKING THEMES OF THE CONFERENCE
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> *Theme 1: Strategies of language retention (Maintenance, survival, or
> abandonment of the languages of origin)*
> *The suggested subtopics and case studies include, but not restricted
> to, the following:*
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> 1.1) Factors affecting the maintenance or abandonment of LO
> 1.2) Maintaining of LO: the sociolinguistic, political and economic context
> 1.3) Presence / maintenance of LO: case studies (linguistic
> sustainability and literary movements)
> 1.4) Survival of LO: domains of use (Ancestral literatures, ritual songs
> etc.)
> 1.5) LO and identity in the modern global context
> 1.6) How essential is language to identity construction?
> 1.7) LO in contact with the country's languages ??: bilingualism,
> diglossia, loss of LO,
> 1.8) LO and Creole: language contacts, linguistic change, borrowings
> (phonology, lexicon, morphosyntax)
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> *Theme 2: Modes of language transmission*
> *The suggested subtopics and case studies include, but not restricted
> to, the following:*
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> 2.1) Transmission through institutional, socio-cultural associations,
> family and group networks
> 2.2) Determination strategy for stabilization or revitalization of LO
> 2.3) Ethno-linguistic groups and linguistic claims
> 2.4) LO vitality and trans-generational transmission (corpus analysis of
> ancestral literatures, ritual songs etc.)
> 2.5) Language and teacher training: content and methodology
> 2.6) Developing / adapting teaching methods and appropriate pedagogical
> materials
> 2.7) The role / contribution of new technologies
> 2.8) Presentation of successful case studies of LO maintenance/transmission
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> Appasamy Murugaiyan
> Chair, Conference Program Committee
> EPHE-UMR 7528 Mondes iranien et indien, Paris
> Conference Website: http://ildconference2015cgpli.org/index.htm
> <http://ildconference2015cgpli.org>
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