The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya 2019
DOI: 10.11647/obp.0169.01
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1. Language Contact and the Politics of Recognition amongst Tibetans in the People’s Republic of China: The rTa’u-Speaking ‘Horpa’ of Khams

Abstract: Bendi Tso completed a Master of Arts in Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2016. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests lie in linguistic nationalism, linguistic identities, and language ideologies. Her current research explores how the ideology of 'authentic Tibetanness'-the idea that speaking Tibetan is taken as a claim to be an authentic Tibetan person-has been played out among Chone Tibetans in Kanlho Tibetan Auto… Show more

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“…Tibetan discourses addressed at these populations typically involves shaming them for their linguistic deviance and deficiency, and encouraging them to linguistically perform their Tibetanness through the study and use of a single Tibetan language (Tunzhi, Suzuki & Roche, 2019;Roche, 2020). In this sense, I argue, mainstream Tibetan claims for language rights is part of the broader climate of oppression and domination faced by Tibet's linguistic minorities.…”
Section: Which Languages? Whose Rights?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Tibetan discourses addressed at these populations typically involves shaming them for their linguistic deviance and deficiency, and encouraging them to linguistically perform their Tibetanness through the study and use of a single Tibetan language (Tunzhi, Suzuki & Roche, 2019;Roche, 2020). In this sense, I argue, mainstream Tibetan claims for language rights is part of the broader climate of oppression and domination faced by Tibet's linguistic minorities.…”
Section: Which Languages? Whose Rights?mentioning
confidence: 99%