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Article: Building Bridges across the Oxus: Language, Development, and Globalization at the Tajik-Afghan Frontier

TitleBuilding Bridges across the Oxus: Language, Development, and Globalization at the Tajik-Afghan Frontier
Authors
KeywordsAfghanistan
global connections
language ideology
local practice
Tajikistan
Issue Date2017
PublisherMouton de Gruyter. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.degruyter.de/journals/ijsl
Citation
International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2017, v. 2017 n. 247, p. 49-70 How to Cite?
AbstractIn this article I set out to explore the Tajik-Afghan frontier in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan region as a “contact zone” in which different actors engage in communicative encounters. Against this backdrop I take the construction of bridges across the Tajik-Afghan border river as a point of departure to analyse how these actors envisage processes of globalization. Following Pennycook, I argue that a focus on language as local practice reveals that the Tajik-Afghan frontier is marked by a high degree of different languages, but also by multiple meanings within and beyond these languages. As a result I maintain that highlighting the locality of languages at the Tajik-Afghan frontier provides an opportunity to frame language as tied to specific communicative encounters in semiotized time and space.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/248795
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dc.contributor.authorMostowlansky, T-
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-18T08:48:41Z-
dc.date.available2017-10-18T08:48:41Z-
dc.date.issued2017-
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2017, v. 2017 n. 247, p. 49-70-
dc.identifier.issn0165-2516-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/248795-
dc.description.abstractIn this article I set out to explore the Tajik-Afghan frontier in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan region as a “contact zone” in which different actors engage in communicative encounters. Against this backdrop I take the construction of bridges across the Tajik-Afghan border river as a point of departure to analyse how these actors envisage processes of globalization. Following Pennycook, I argue that a focus on language as local practice reveals that the Tajik-Afghan frontier is marked by a high degree of different languages, but also by multiple meanings within and beyond these languages. As a result I maintain that highlighting the locality of languages at the Tajik-Afghan frontier provides an opportunity to frame language as tied to specific communicative encounters in semiotized time and space.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherMouton de Gruyter. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.degruyter.de/journals/ijsl-
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language-
dc.subjectAfghanistan-
dc.subjectglobal connections-
dc.subjectlanguage ideology-
dc.subjectlocal practice-
dc.subjectTajikistan-
dc.titleBuilding Bridges across the Oxus: Language, Development, and Globalization at the Tajik-Afghan Frontier-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailMostowlansky, T: mostow@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/ijsl-2017-0021-
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dc.identifier.hkuros282548-
dc.identifier.volume2017-
dc.identifier.issue247-
dc.identifier.spage49-
dc.identifier.epage70-
dc.publisher.placeGermany-
dc.identifier.issnl0165-2516-

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