RCAPS Seminar will be held on July 4th(Wednesday)
AY 2012 RCAPS Seminar, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Lecture Title : ADL research presentation: The Establishment of the National Language in 20th Century Cambodia: Debates on Orthography and Coinage
Lecturer : Prof. SASAGAWA, Hideo(Associate Professor, College of Asia Pacific Studies, APU)
Date & Time : July 4th(Wednesday) 14:15-15:50
Place : RCAPS Conference Room(2F) @APU
Language : English
Abstract:
As many case studies illustrated, the creation of a national language is quite a political issue. Even in Cambodia where ethnic Khmers make up about 90% of its population, the process at which the ethnic Khmer language became the Cambodian national one was far from natural. This RCAPS seminar discusses the establishment of orthography and the coinage of modern jargons in the 20th century in order to elucidate characteristics of Cambodian cultural nationalism. Buddhist monks and ex-monks proficient in Sanskrit, Pali, old Khmer and Thai played significant roles in publishing the first Khmer language dictionary which completed orthography of the Khmer script, and creating modern vocabulary which explicitly excluded loanwords from French and implicitly differentiated Khmer from Thai.
Interested applicants can register from the URL below.
http://survey.apu.ac.jp/surveyja/entry.jsp?id=1339116333207
