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Script and identity – the politics of writing in South Asia: an introduction

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dc.contributor.author Brandt, Carmen en_US
dc.contributor.author SOHONI, PUSHKAR en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2018-06-20T08:52:00Z
dc.date.available 2018-06-20T08:52:00Z
dc.date.issued 2018 en_US
dc.identifier.citation South Asian History and Culture. Vol. 9(1) en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1947-2501 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dr.iiserpune.ac.in:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1058
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2017.1411048 en_US
dc.description.abstract This essay gives an overview of the complex relationships between language, script, and identity in various speech communities across South Asia. South Asia hosts a great number of languages, whose written forms play an important role in the formation of their speakers’ identity. Apart from polygraphia, i.e. several scripts for one language, and the phenomenon of one script being shared by several languages, some scripts have been assigned or associated with a dominant or dominating role over the course of time. The reasons for choosing one script over another can be linked to the conscious and unconscious strengthening of ethnic, national, and/or religious identities. These choices can also be linked to state agencies, their regulation of mass education and bureaucracy, or simply to standardization processes caused by technological inventions. In this issue, which contains six articles, the authors compare socioculturally and linguistically divergent geographic areas to examine script-related politics of identity among Chakma, Konkani, Marathi, Meitei, Punjabi, Santali, and Tamil speakers. In the essay at hand, meanwhile, we highlight the complex roles various scripts have played across geopolitical, linguistic, and religious borders, for instance the Arabic, so-called Bengali, Nagari, or Roman scripts. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Taylor & Francis en_US
dc.subject Humanities and Social Sciences en_US
dc.subject Scripts en_US
dc.subject Writing systems en_US
dc.subject Linguistic identity en_US
dc.subject Linguistics en_US
dc.subject Language politics en_US
dc.subject 2018 en_US
dc.title Script and identity – the politics of writing in South Asia: an introduction en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.contributor.department Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences en_US
dc.identifier.sourcetitle South Asian History and Culture en_US
dc.publication.originofpublisher Foreign en_US


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