Dear J Silk
can you share pdf of the article? it will be helpful to check the content and authenticity.
regards
Rupali Mokashi
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1. Call for Papers- International Conference- Indian Languages
in Diaspora (a.murugaiyan)
2. Brahmi in a Babylonian Inscription?? (Jonathan Silk)
3. Re: Brahmi in a Babylonian Inscription?? (Patrick Olivelle)
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Dear List members,
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.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
INDIAN LANGUAGES IN DIASPORAS
STRATEGIES OF RETENTION AND MODES OF TRANSMISSION
29-31 October 2015, M?morial ACTe, Pointe-?-Pitre, Guadeloupe
*CALL FOR PAPERS***
*/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/
*RATIONALE*
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.
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.
* 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.*
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.
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
*
WORKING THEMES OF THE CONFERENCE
*
*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:*
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)
*Theme 2: Modes of language transmission*
*The suggested subtopics and case studies include, but not restricted
to, the following:*
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
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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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:02:33 +0200
From: Jonathan Silk <kauzeya@gmail.com>
To: Indology <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Brahmi in a Babylonian Inscription??
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Dear Colleagues,
I have been asked about an article:
A Line of Bra?hmi? (?) Script in a Babylonian Contract Tablet
G. V. Bobrinskoy
Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Mar., 1936), pp.
86-88
I am very far from being a specialist in Brahmi, but I'm not convinced.
But I couldn't see that anyone has responded to this article... ever. The
date of the tablet is pre-A?okan, which only makes me more suspicious,
but...
(A quick look through von Hin?ber's book on early writing did not show up
any reference, nor is there reference in Salomon's inscriptions book).
jonathan
--
J. Silk
Leiden University
Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS
Matthias de Vrieshof 3, Room 0.05b
2311 BZ Leiden
The Netherlands
copies of my publications may be found at
http://www.buddhismandsocialjustice.com/silk_publications.html
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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:55:47 -0500
From: Patrick Olivelle <jpo@uts.cc.utexas.edu>
To: Jonathan Silk <kauzeya@gmail.com>
Cc: Indology <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Brahmi in a Babylonian Inscription??
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This is not listed in Richard's bibliography.
On Mar 30, 2015, at 10:02 AM, Jonathan Silk <kauzeya@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I have been asked about an article:
>
> A Line of Bra?hmi? (?) Script in a Babylonian Contract Tablet
>
> G. V. Bobrinskoy
>
> Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Mar., 1936), pp. 86-88
>
> I am very far from being a specialist in Brahmi, but I'm not convinced. But I couldn't see that anyone has responded to this article... ever. The date of the tablet is pre-A?okan, which only makes me more suspicious, but...
> (A quick look through von Hin?ber's book on early writing did not show up any reference, nor is there reference in Salomon's inscriptions book).
>
> jonathan
> --
> J. Silk
> Leiden University
> Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS
> Matthias de Vrieshof 3, Room 0.05b
> 2311 BZ Leiden
> The Netherlands
>
> copies of my publications may be found at
> http://www.buddhismandsocialjustice.com/silk_publications.html
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