Publications

Publication details [#55033]

Rosowsky, Andrey. 2011. Heavenly singing: the practice of naat and nasheed and its possible contribution to reversing language shift among young Muslim multilinguals in the UK. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2011 (212) : 135–148.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This study explores how interest revival in religio-cultural poetry and song (and its increased accessibility via the Internet), mainly manifested within the multilingual Muslim youth of Pakistani descent living in a northern UK city, is associated with interest in the community's prestigious indigenous varieties of Urdu, H-Punjabi, and classical Arabic. It also examines how this affects language shift reversal and whether English (Yish) is employed in religio-cultural practices traditionally performed in community languages.