Bordering Tibetan Languages

Making and Marking Languages in Transnational High Asia
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-94-6372-504-0
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Asian Borderlands

Bordering Tibetan Languages: Making and Marking Languages in Transnational High Asia examines the complex interactions between state, ethnic, and linguistic borders in the Himalayas. These case studies from Bhutan, China, India, and Nepal show how people in the Himalayas talk borders into existence, and also how those borders speak to them and their identities. These ‘talking borders’ exist in a world where state borders are contested, and which is being irrevocably transformed by rapid social and economic change. This book offers a new perspective on this dynamic region by centring language, and in doing so, also offers new ways of thinking about how borders and language influence each other.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roche, Gerald

Hyslop, Gwendolyn

Weitere Mitwirkende

Donohue, Cathryn

Lepcha, Charisma

Schmidt, Dirk

Suzuki, Hiroyuki

Ward, Shannon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachpolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Ethnolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

About the Cover Image

1 Introduction: Bordering Tibetan Languages: Making and Marking Languages in Transnational High Asia, by Gerald Roche

2 Playing with Language Boundaries: Heteroglot Standard Language Ideology and Linguistic Belonging among Amdo Children, by Shannon Ward

3 The Role of Classical Tibetan (Choke) on the Development of Kurtop, a Language of Bhutan, by Gwendolyn Hyslop

4 Reimagining Rongring without Tibetan Buddhist Influence, by Charisma K. Lepcha

5 Glottonyms, Identity, and Language Recognition in the Eastern Tibetosphere, by Hiroyuki Suzuki

6 On the Yak Horns of a Dilemma: Diverging Standards in Diaspora Tibetan, by Dirk Schmidt

7 Changing Identity and Linguistic Practices in Nubri: Veiled Language Endangerment in the Nepalese Tibetosphere, by Cathryn Donohue

8 Borderline Dominance: Transnational Tibetan Language Politics in the Himalayas, by Gerald Roche

9 Borders: In Conclusion, by Gwendolyn Hyslop

Tibetan Language Summaries

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ward, Shannon
Shannon M. Ward is an Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada. Her research examines language socialization, multilingualism, and heritage language learning, with a focus on communities from the Himalayas.

Lepcha, Charisma
Charisma K. Lepcha teaches anthropology at Sikkim University, India. Her research interests include religion, identity, indigeneity, and linguistic anthropology in the eastern Himalaya borderlands. She was a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla (2018-2019). She was also a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Cambridge, MA (2021-2022).

Schmidt, Dirk
Dirk Schmidt graduated with an MA in Tibetan Studies in 2008. He then went to India to learn Tibetan. He has worked with Esukhia since 2011 on a variety of research and development projects related to Tibetan language education, children’s literature, and translation technology. Dirk is currently a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Donohue, Cathryn
Cathryn Donohue (PhD, Stanford University) is a field linguist specializing in Sino-Tibetan, with a primary focus on Himalayan languages. Her linguistic interests center on morphosyntax, tonal phenomena, and language variation, including documentary and outreach components. She is currently a Research Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Suzuki, Hiroyuki
Hiroyuki Suzuki holds a D.Litt. in linguistics from Kyoto University (2007) and is currently a part-time lecturer teaching the Chinese language at Kyoto University, Japan. His principal research interests are descriptive linguistics, geolinguistics, dialectology, and sociolinguistics of languages in the Tibetosphere.

Hyslop, Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn Hyslop received her PhD from the University of Oregon and is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. She is a specialist of Tibeto Burman languages, in particular those from Bhutan. She has written a grammar of Kurtöp and also specializes in Historical Linguistics.

Roche, Gerald
Gerald Roche is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Politics, Media, and Philosophy at La Trobe University (Australia). He is an international expert in language revitalization and the politics of language in Tibet and the Himalayas.