The Language Movement in Bangladesh
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The Language Movement in Bangladesh

Translingualism and a Struggle for Rhetorical Sovereignty

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Language Movement in Bangladesh

Translingualism and a Struggle for Rhetorical Sovereignty

About this book

The Language Movement in Bangladesh charts the Bangla Language Movement from a rhetorical perspective. Following Partition in 1947, major conflicts over land, religion, power, and language characterized the newly independent nations of India and Pakistan. The debate over recognizing Bangla as a state language in East Pakistan was particularly consequential. Lasting nearly a decade, it upended Pakistan's political and social order and set the stage for Bangladeshi independence in 1971. Shakil Rabbi investigates the rhetorical facets of this debate and its takeaways for critical conversations around translingualist perspectives and rhetorical sovereignty. Rabbi analyzes the role of traditional, modernist, and folk ideologies during this era of subcontinental history through a combination of digital humanities and translingualist methodologies. The Language Movement in Bangladesh adds to scholarship around language rights and language ideologies with an examination of a politically explosive debate in a non-Western and postcolonial context.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. 1 The Language Movement in Bangladesh: The What and the Why?
  8. 2 A Sense of the Archive of the State Language Debate: Distant Reading Methodologies for Translingualist Takeaways
  9. 3 Negotiating Traditional Ideologies: Islamic Rhetorics and Recontextualization Strategies
  10. 4 Negotiating Modern Ideologies: Rhetorics of Reform and Institutionalizing Bangla
  11. 5 Negotiating Folk Ideologies: Multiliteracies and the State Language Debate
  12. 6 Rhetorical Sovereignty and Contemporary Bangladeshi Culture: Translingualist Takeaways and Transnational Practices
  13. Appendix A. Chronology of Significant Events in the State Language Debate
  14. Appendix B. Text Mining for Data Visualization
  15. Appendix C. Table of the Record of the State Language Debate
  16. Appendix D. Spatiotemporal Worknets
  17. Notes
  18. References
  19. Index
  20. Backcover Page

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