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Kashgar revisited : Uyghur studies in memory of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring
Building on the rich scholarly legacy of Gunnar Jarring, the Swedish Turkologist and diplomat, the fourteen contributions by sixteen authors representing a variety of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences provide an insight into ongoing research trends in Uyghur and Xinjiang Studies. In one way or other all the chapters explore how new research in the fields of history, linguistics, anthropology and folklore can contribute to our understanding of Xinjiang's past and present, simultaneously pointing to those social and knowledge practices that Uyghurs today can claim as part of their traditions in order to reproduce and perpetuate their cultural identity.Contributors include: Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Rahile Dawut, Arienne Dwyer, Fredrik Fällman, Chris Hann, Dilmurat Mahmut, Takahiro Onuma, Alexandre Papas, Eric Schluessel, Birgit Schlyter, Joanne Smith Finley, Rune Steenberg Jun Sugawara, Åsäd Sulaiman, Abdurishid Yakup, Thierry Zarcone.
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Kashgar Revisited
Contributions to the volume provide new insights into ongoing research into Uyghur history, linguistics and culture, while building on the scholarly legacy of Gunnar Jarring, the Swedish Turcologist and diplomat.
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Languages in a Globalising World
Throughout human history, the fate of languages has been closely linked to political power relationships. Political shifts in the international system continue to affect linguistic patterns, which today are still in a state of flux following the end of the Cold War. This book considers the effects of present-day trends in global politics on the relative status of languages, and the directions in which the linguistic hierarchy might develop in the future. What are the prospects for the continuing spread of English? Will other traditionally prominent languages such as French and German gain or lose influence? Will languages such as Arabic and Japanese increase in international status? Will minority languages continue to lose ground and disappear? The book assesses these prospects, looking at the major world regions, and with its interdisciplinary approach it will appeal to researchers and students of sociolinguistics and language planning as well as of international relations.
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Sociolinguistic changes in transformed Central Asian societies
Multilingualism – from the point of view of both societies and individuals – is a striking characteristic of Central Asia. An exceptionally high mobility among ethnic populations in earlier periods due to nomadism, wars, trade, migration for political or economic reasons and even deportations has been the natural cause of language contact and the interference of one language into another or the functional dominance of one language over the other. In addition to this, throughout the twentieth century linguistic patterns in Central Asia have been in a constant process of politicised and rapid reorganisation. Finally, with the new large-scale sociopolitical developments taking place in the region since the Soviet collapse, traditional language settings are subject to considerably different conditions from those of the past. To a much greater extent than before future research on not only major languages and public language practice, but also minority language settings in Central Asia, will have to take into account the overall sociopolitical conditions and official programmes of the societies to which these settings belong.In contemporary research Central Asia is generally given a wide definition delimiting a territory almost as large as that of Canada, from the Caspian Sea in the west to the Hinggan Mountains to the east of Mongolia, and from the Iranian Plateau, the Himalayas and Tibet in the south to the Siberian steppe lands in the north. In the western part of Central Asia there are now, for the first time after centuries of foreign interference and hegemony, truly independent states: the former five Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan.
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