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Eisenlohr, Patrick. 2004. Register levels of ethno-national purity: The ethnicization of language and community in Mauritius. Language in Society 33 (1) : 59–80.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | identity negotiation | language and society

Language as a subject

Bhojpuri, Mauritius

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study uses examples from Mauritian television broadcasting to examine the ethnicization of Mauritian Bhojpuri as a “Hindu language” via the hierarchization and subsuming of linguistic practices under broader language labels carrying ethno-national significance.