Register Levels of Ethno-National Purity: The Ethnicization of Language and Community in Mauritius  

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Eisenlohr, Patrick

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language in Society (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 33 no. 1 (Feb. 2004), page 59-80.
Fulltext: 4169316.pdf (2.59MB)

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Language is involved in processes of group identification in that it provides a focus for explicit discourses of identity and constitutes a field of less overt practices for creating groupness. Drawing on examples from Mauritian television broadcasting, this studytraces the ethnicization of Mauritian Bhojpuri as a "Hindu language" through the hierarchization and subsuming of linguistic practices under larger language labels with ethno-national significance. Purist forms of Mauritian Bhojpuri that are locally perceived as "intermediate" registers between Hindi and Bhojpuri are usedto represent Hindi as a language spoken in Mauritius, and at the same time to link Mauritian Bhojpuri ideologically to Hindu identity. this blurring of language boundaries serves a Hindu nationalist agenda in a diasporiclocation by establishing new links between linguistic forms and ethno-national values. (Linguistic anthropology, nationalism, language ideology, language and community, multilingualism, Maufitius, Indian diaspora)

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