Urdu in Devanagari: Shifting orthographic practices and Muslim identity in Delhi

Ahmad, Rizwan

doi:10.1017/s0047404511000182

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“…Labov 1972, 2006). This observation has been reinforced by recent research in linguistic anthropology that examines the role of social objects such as orthography in bringing particular features to the level of awareness (Ahmad 2011; Jaffe, Androutsopoulos, Sebba, & Johnson 2012; Hillewaert 2015; Choksi & Meek 2016).…”

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Perceiving isn't believing: Divergence in levels of sociolinguistic awareness

McGowan

Babel

2019

Lang. Soc.

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The influence of social knowledge on speech perception is a question of interest to a range of disciplines of language research. This study combines experimental and qualitative approaches to investigate whether the various methodological and disciplinary threads of research on this topic are truly investigating the same phenomenon to provide converging evidence in our understanding of social listening. This study investigates listeners’ perceptions of Spanish and Quechua speakers speaking Spanish in the context of a contact zone between these two languages and their speakers in central Bolivia. The results of a pair of matched-guise vowel discrimination tasks and subsequent interviews demonstrate that what people perceive, as measured by experimental tasks, is not necessarily what they believe they hear, as reported in narrative responses to interview prompts. Multiple methodological approaches must be employed in order to fully understand the way that we perceive language at diverging levels of sociolinguistic awareness. (Perception, sociophonetics, sociolinguistics, awareness, Andean Spanish)

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Perceiving isn't believing: Divergence in levels of sociolinguistic awareness

McGowan

Babel

2019

Lang. Soc.

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“…graphemes with English phonemes as has been noted by and Ahmad (2011). There are 38 alphabets in Urdu but in Romanized Urdu 66% of them are reduced to 24%.…”

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Meaning Making Through Minimal Linguistic Forms in Computer-Mediated Communication

Rafi

2014

SAGE Open

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the linguistic forms, which commonly constitute meanings in the digital environment. The data were sampled from 200 Bachelor of Science (BS) students (who had Urdu as their primary language of communication and English as one of the academic languages or the most prestigious second language) of five universities situated in Lahore, Pakistan. The procedure for analysis was conceived within much related theoretical work on text analysis. The study reveals that cyber-language is organized through patterns of use, which can be broadly classified into minimal linguistic forms constituting a meaning-making resource. In addition, the expression of syntactic mood, and discourse roles the participants technically assume tend to contribute to the theory of meaning in the digital environment. It is hoped that the study would make some contribution to the growing literature on multilingual computer-mediated communication (CMC).

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“…My analysis also draws on recent work that specifically engages with multilingual and multiscript writing (e.g. Ahmad 2011;Jaffe et al 2012;Piller 2001;Piller 2003;Sebba et al 2012), and relates these insights to Gal and Woolard's (1994) notion of linguistic publics. Public writing, whether Soviet slogans emblazoned on rooftops, or brand names occupying the same, post-Soviet spaces, implies a reading public able to decode the meaning or meanings of such writing (Gal and Woolard 1994;Scollon and Scollon 2004).…”

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Plastic letters

Dickinson¹

2022

PRAG

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This article examines the complex intersection of language ideologies shaping alphabetic choices in Ukrainian outdoor advertising and shop signs, focusing on alphabet mixing through the insertion of Latin letters into Cyrillic texts and the juxtaposition of parallel or alternating texts using both of these writing systems. Drawing upon ethnographic data from work with graphic designers and consumers as well as analysis of language use in signs, I argue that while alphabet mixing is often characterized as “faddish” or “youth-oriented” these practices also reflect Soviet-era ideological stances towards both Latin typefaces, seen as “plastic” letters associated with Western capitalism, and Cyrillic typefaces, seen as “rigid” forms subject to strong central control by the Soviet state. The increasing availability of personal computers with word-processing and graphic design software in Ukraine has both increased access by individuals to print technology, and promoted a new typographic aesthetic through the dissemination of Cyrillic fonts based on Latin, not Soviet or pre-Soviet Cyrillic, models.

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Urdu in Devanagari: Shifting orthographic practices and Muslim identity in Delhi

Cited by 21 publications

References 19 publications

Perceiving isn't believing: Divergence in levels of sociolinguistic awareness

Perceiving isn't believing: Divergence in levels of sociolinguistic awareness

Meaning Making Through Minimal Linguistic Forms in Computer-Mediated Communication

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