The Language Loss of the Indigenous - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1138120820 ISBN 13: 9781138120822

Verlag: Routledge India, 2016

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The volume traces the theme of the loss of indigenous language and culture in numerous post-colonial contexts. It has contributions from scholars across the globe who form a consensus to establish that various traditional and specialized languages, art forms, skills, heritages, scripts are depleting at an increasing rate due to influences of modernization.

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G. N. Devy is Founder of the Bhasha Research Centre at Baroda and Adivasi Academy at Tejgadh, Gujarat, India. He writes in three Indian languages – Marathi, Gujarati and English – and has received prestigious awards for his writings. Formerly he taught at the MS University of Baroda and the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DAIICT). He is currently Chair of the People’s Linguistic Survey of India and received the civilian honour of Padma Shri from the Government of India in 2014.

Geoffrey V. Davis is former Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Aachen, Germany. He has been international chair of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) and chair of the European branch. He coedits Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English and the African studies series Matatu. His publications include Staging New Britain: Aspects of Black and South Asian British Theatre Practice (2006) and African Literatures, Postcolonial Literatures in English: Sources and Resources (2013).

K. K. Chakravarty, formerly in the Indian Administrative Services, has held several esteemed positions in his career as Chancellor of the National University for Educational Planning and Administration; Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi, the national academy for visual arts; and Member Secretary, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. Educated at Harvard, he has contributed several research articles to books and journals in archaeology, fine arts, philosophy and education.

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• Verlag: Routledge India
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138120820
• ISBN 13: 9781138120822
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 332
• Herausgeber: Devy G. N., Davis Geoffrey V., Chakravarty K. K.
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