Streams of Language: Dialects in Tamil
Book Details
Author(s)M Kannan
PublisherInstitut Francais De Pondichery
ISBN / ASINB007ZZGIM2
ISBN-13978B007ZZGIM5
Sales Rank9,346,268
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Language: English and Tamil
Pages: 358
About the Book
Streams of Language:
Dialects in Tamil
This volume is the outcome, independent, extended and enlarged, of an international conference, Dialects in Tamil held on August 23-25th 2006 at the French Institute of Pondicherry.
Dialects in Tamil emerge from a configuration of the following elements shared by people: caste, region, landscape and the material culture which sustains them...
This book is arranged in sections with the idea that rays of light from different fields will fall on the single subject before us. The order in which the sections are arranged indicates how the problematic of dialects in Tamil has been addressed in different contexts (from international scholars to linguists to Tamil creative writers). This arrangement also underlines the holistic, multidisciplinary approach undertaken in this volume. Tamil papers contain English abstracts and vice versa, so that both Tamil and English readers can benefit from the volume.
The book unfolds like a Chinese fan into a series of dialogues emerging between the papers and between the sections: between a French scholar and an Italian scholar, Francois Gros and Alberto D. Formal; between a comparative philologist and an Historian, Herman Tieken and Iravatham Mahadeven; between a linguist and an epigraphist, Velupillai and Y. Subbarayalu, B. Gopinathan Nair and M.R. raghava Varier; between a modern grammarian and a traditional Tamil Pulavar, Jean Luc Chevillard and T.V. Gopal Iyer; between an anthropologist and an expert in manuscripts, S. Bhakthavatsala Bharathi and Jayadheer Tirumala Rao; between a lexicographer and some modern Tamil writers, P.R. Subramanian and Perumal Murugan, Kanmani Gunasekaran; and between non Dalit and Dalit writers, Perumal Murugan, Kanmani Gun
Pages: 358
About the Book
Streams of Language:
Dialects in Tamil
This volume is the outcome, independent, extended and enlarged, of an international conference, Dialects in Tamil held on August 23-25th 2006 at the French Institute of Pondicherry.
Dialects in Tamil emerge from a configuration of the following elements shared by people: caste, region, landscape and the material culture which sustains them...
This book is arranged in sections with the idea that rays of light from different fields will fall on the single subject before us. The order in which the sections are arranged indicates how the problematic of dialects in Tamil has been addressed in different contexts (from international scholars to linguists to Tamil creative writers). This arrangement also underlines the holistic, multidisciplinary approach undertaken in this volume. Tamil papers contain English abstracts and vice versa, so that both Tamil and English readers can benefit from the volume.
The book unfolds like a Chinese fan into a series of dialogues emerging between the papers and between the sections: between a French scholar and an Italian scholar, Francois Gros and Alberto D. Formal; between a comparative philologist and an Historian, Herman Tieken and Iravatham Mahadeven; between a linguist and an epigraphist, Velupillai and Y. Subbarayalu, B. Gopinathan Nair and M.R. raghava Varier; between a modern grammarian and a traditional Tamil Pulavar, Jean Luc Chevillard and T.V. Gopal Iyer; between an anthropologist and an expert in manuscripts, S. Bhakthavatsala Bharathi and Jayadheer Tirumala Rao; between a lexicographer and some modern Tamil writers, P.R. Subramanian and Perumal Murugan, Kanmani Gunasekaran; and between non Dalit and Dalit writers, Perumal Murugan, Kanmani Gun
