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Conference Paper: Between ‘methodological nationalism’ and ‘transnationalism’: English and the transnational Ismaili community
Title | Between ‘methodological nationalism’ and ‘transnationalism’: English and the transnational Ismaili community |
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Issue Date | 2016 |
Citation | Department of English Language and Literature Seminar Series, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, November 2016 How to Cite? |
Abstract | As sociolinguistics has increasingly turned its attention to globalization and its relationship to language use and ideology, the term ‘transnationalism’ has gained in currency. Yet it remains under-defined and under-theorized, such that it is often not clear what or who is transnational, in what sense, and how being or thinking transnational (Vertovec 1999; Dahinden 2009) relates to issues of language use and ideology. In this paper I aim to draw on my research on the role of English for the transnational Ismaili community to explore what a transnational perspective might both highlight and hide. Via consideration of examples collected during ethnographic fieldwork in two communities of Ismailis (Hunza, Northern Pakistan and Khorog, Eastern Tajikistan), I reflect on the various meanings of transnational; on the notions of ‘local’, ‘national’ and ‘transnational’; and on the challenge of their simultaneity or co-occurrence. At a more abstract level, this entails addressing the challenge of going beyond methodological nationalism without per se or a priori overemphasizing transnationalism. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/295659 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Bolander, BWR | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-03T08:39:19Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-02-03T08:39:19Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Department of English Language and Literature Seminar Series, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, November 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/295659 | - |
dc.description.abstract | As sociolinguistics has increasingly turned its attention to globalization and its relationship to language use and ideology, the term ‘transnationalism’ has gained in currency. Yet it remains under-defined and under-theorized, such that it is often not clear what or who is transnational, in what sense, and how being or thinking transnational (Vertovec 1999; Dahinden 2009) relates to issues of language use and ideology. In this paper I aim to draw on my research on the role of English for the transnational Ismaili community to explore what a transnational perspective might both highlight and hide. Via consideration of examples collected during ethnographic fieldwork in two communities of Ismailis (Hunza, Northern Pakistan and Khorog, Eastern Tajikistan), I reflect on the various meanings of transnational; on the notions of ‘local’, ‘national’ and ‘transnational’; and on the challenge of their simultaneity or co-occurrence. At a more abstract level, this entails addressing the challenge of going beyond methodological nationalism without per se or a priori overemphasizing transnationalism. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Department of English Language and Literature Seminar Series, National University of Singapore (NUS) | - |
dc.title | Between ‘methodological nationalism’ and ‘transnationalism’: English and the transnational Ismaili community | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.email | Bolander, BWR: bolander@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Bolander, BWR=rp02072 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 276322 | - |