TY - JOUR
T1 - Rewriting the past and reimagining the future
T2 - The social life of a Tamil heritage language industry
AU - Neela Das, Sonia
N1 - Funding Information:
This special issue of Symposium Dedicated to Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technologies is devoted to the ASME 13th International Conference on Energy Sustainability held in Bellevue, WA, June 15–17, 2019. For more than 10 years, the conference has been a venue for researchers from all over the world and for industry leaders from important sectors of energy production and management to share their innovative ideas and research progress. The conference in 2020 was sponsored by the Advanced Energy System Division and the Solar Energy Division. The ES Conference included 15 parallel tracks on the broad topic of renewable/sustainable energy, including, but not limited to, Sustainable Buildings, Sustainable Infrastructure and Transportation, Conversion and Processing of Biofuel and Alternative Fuel, Distributed Energy Systems, Concentrating Solar Power, Ocean and Hydropower Technologies, Photovoltaics, Wind Energy, and Emerging Technologies. In order to highlight innovative research outcomes and enhance public visibility, we have invited high-quality papers among 166 presentations, to be included in this special issue. Conference chairs from the Advanced Energy Division and Solar Energy Division, as well as experts from around the world, organized this issue as guest editors. We greatly appreciate your interest in this special issue, and we take this opportunity to thank the authors and reviewers for their outstanding contributions. We would also like to express our deep gratitude for the editor-in-chief of the journal, Dr. Hameed Metghalchi, for his guidance and support.
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - Globally circulating discourses associated with heritage language industries often promote temporally dichotomous views of spoken and written languages that deny coeval status to linguistic minorities. In the multilingual city of Montreal, Quebec, where Sri Lankan refugees work to preserve a classicalist style of Written Tamil and Indian immigrants work to revitalize a modernist style of Spoken Tamil, this division of labor is undermined by elders and youth who, in mixing colloquial and literary styles of Tamil, French, and English, reframe curricular and nationalist discourses of language loss and degeneration into more empowering narratives of developmental progress and ethnolinguistic identification.
AB - Globally circulating discourses associated with heritage language industries often promote temporally dichotomous views of spoken and written languages that deny coeval status to linguistic minorities. In the multilingual city of Montreal, Quebec, where Sri Lankan refugees work to preserve a classicalist style of Written Tamil and Indian immigrants work to revitalize a modernist style of Spoken Tamil, this division of labor is undermined by elders and youth who, in mixing colloquial and literary styles of Tamil, French, and English, reframe curricular and nationalist discourses of language loss and degeneration into more empowering narratives of developmental progress and ethnolinguistic identification.
KW - Globalization
KW - Heritage language industry
KW - Montreal
KW - Tamil diaspora
KW - Temporality
KW - Urban multilingualism
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01336.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01336.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:81155133429
SN - 0094-0496
VL - 38
SP - 774
EP - 789
JO - American Ethnologist
JF - American Ethnologist
IS - 4
ER -