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- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231178301
ISBN-13
9780231178303
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219408440
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Publication Name
Negotiating Languages : Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia
Language
English
Subject
Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Linguistics / Historical & Comparative, Asia / India & South Asia, Linguistics / General, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Series
South Asia Across the Disciplines Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
20.2 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2015-040766
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A brilliant contribution to the story of how Hindustani emerged as a standardized, comprehensive language, and in the end diverged into Urdu and Hindi as languages of cultural and national identity. With great originality, Hakala shows how dictionaries change over time in their sources, format, claims to authenticity, and the populations they at once reflect and create. We will never look at the Fallon, Platts, and Farhang that sit on our desks in the same way again., A pioneering study of Hindi/Urdu lexicography, Hakala's book is an equally significant contribution to the sociology of Urdu's premodern literature. His meticulous analyses of four lexicons, dating from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, bring revealing insights to the issues that much concerned not only the lexicographers but also all the creative writers of those times, as well as issues of linguistic authority and authenticity and gender and class identities., South Asianists have needed a pioneering book that takes seriously the ideological underpinnings of dictionary production and meaning-making across a range of linguistic, cultural, and class boundaries and shows how dynamic such exchanges often are. Negotiating Languages is a major contribution to the study of South Asia., Who knew that lexicographical analysis could be so historically revelatory, culturally astute, and rich in anecdotes? Hakala's book is not only a source to be mined for information but also a joy to read. Everyone with an interest in South Asian language history will find it both a treasure and a pleasure., South Asianists have needed a pioneering book that takes seriously the ideological underpinnings of dictionary production and meaning-making across a range of linguistic, cultural and class boundaries, and shows how dynamic such exchanges often are. Negotiating Languages is a major contribution to the study of South Asia., A pioneering study of Hindi/Urdu lexicography, Hakala's book is an equally significant contribution to the sociology of Urdu's pre-modern literature. His meticulous analyses of four lexicons, dating from the 17th to the 19th centuries, bring out revealing insights into the issues that much concerned not only the lexicographers but also all creative writers of those times, the issues of linguistic authority and authenticity and of gender and class identities., The book is a meaningful achievement . . . Hakala's pioneering work will make a positive impact on future work in South Asian academia., This book is a brilliant contribution to the story of how Hindustani emerged as a standardized, comprehensive language, and, in the end, diverged into Urdu and Hindi as languages of cultural and national identity. With great originality, Hakala shows how dictionaries change over time in their sources, format, claims to authenticity, and the populations they at once reflect and create. We will never look at the Fallon, Platts, and Farhang that sit on our desks in the same way again., A monumental work. Its eloquence is sublime, the stories are tantalizing, and the illustrations are gripping., Who knew that lexicographical analysis could be so historically revelatory, so culturally astute, and so rich in anecdotes? Prof. Hakala's book is not only a source to be mined for information, but also a joy to read. Everyone with an interest in South Asian language history will find this book both a treasure and a pleasure., This is the sort of book that one hopes will find its way into the hands of non-specialists. . . . The stories are delightful, the theoretical questions are thoughtfully posed and wide-ranging, and the author's mastery over a weird and in some ways unexpectedly important archive is evident throughout., This is a monumental work. Its eloquence is sublime, the stories told in it are tantalizing and the illustrations featured in it are gripping.
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Table Of Content
List of Figures Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Chronology 1. A Plot Discovered 2. 1700: Between Microhistory and Macrostructures 3. 1800: Through the Veil of Poetry 4. 1900: Lexicography and the Self 5. 1900: Grasping at Straws Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Casts lexicographers as key figures in the political realignment of South Asia under British rule and in the years after independence. Their dictionaries document how a single, mutually intelligible language evolved into two competing registers--Urdu and Hindi--and became associated with contrasting religious and nationalist goals, Prior to the nineteenth century, South Asian dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies reflected a hierarchical vision of nature and human society. By the turn of the twentieth century, the modern dictionary had democratized and politicized language. Compiled "scientifically" through "historical principles," the modern dictionary became a concrete symbol of a nation's arrival on the world stage. Following this phenomenon from the late seventeenth century to the present, Negotiating Languages casts lexicographers as key figures in the political realignment of South Asia under British rule and in the years after independence. Their dictionaries document how a single, mutually intelligible language evolved into two competing registers--Urdu and Hindi--and became associated with contrasting religious and nationalist goals. Each chapter in this volume focuses on a key lexicographical work and its fateful political consequences. Recovering texts by overlooked and even denigrated authors, Negotiating Languages provides insight into the forces that turned intimate speech into a potent nationalist politics, intensifying the passions that partitioned the Indian subcontinent.
LC Classification Number
P115.5.S623H35 2016
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