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Transgender in India: A Semiotic and Reception Analysis of Bollywood Movies (open access)

Transgender in India: A Semiotic and Reception Analysis of Bollywood Movies

The transgender community in India, commonly known as hijras, consists of people who were born as males but address themselves as females. They have been considered as the third gender in India for millennia and have had specific religious and sociocultural values and roles, but are forced to live in shadows in this day and age. Isolation of this community is also reflected in the way transgender characters are represented in Indian entertainment media. The study analyses two transgender themed films semiotically and the audience reception of those representations by 20 members of the transgender community. Semiotics is a helpful tool to understand the ways signs communicate ideas to viewers. This study applies syntagmatic and paradigmatic analyses to understand how images are used to represent and relay information to the audience. Reception theory along with double colonization has been incorporated in this study to analyse the ways in which the transgender community interprets the representations in entertainment media.
Date: May 2020
Creator: Shewade, Ruchi Ravi
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Amplifying Community Voices in Language Archives Through Participatory Archiving

Presentation from a panel, "Considering Individual and Community Contexts Within Information Pedagogy, Scholarship, and Practice," that was held virtually for the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). This portion of the panel focuses on the author's research into community-based language research (CBLR) and the Lamkang language.
Date: October 25, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Introduction to the Language Endangerment and Political Instability UNESCO workshop captions transcript

Introduction to the Language Endangerment and Political Instability UNESCO workshop

Video of Shobhana Chelliah introducing the 2020 workshop 'Language Then and Now: Language Endangerment and Political Instability' held at the Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts in New Delhi, India. At this workshop, held in conjunction with UNESCO, participants discuss their experiences of how political instability and violence break apart communities and erode their ability to pass down their written and spoken word.
Date: February 21, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech about language endangerment and political instability in the Balkans captions transcript

Speech about language endangerment and political instability in the Balkans

Video of a presentation from the 2020 workshop 'Language Then and Now: Language Endangerment and Political Instability.' Ana Roeschley discusses her experience of how political instability and violence break apart communities and erode their ability to pass down their written and spoken word in the Balkans. She talks about the siege of Sarajevo and the destruction of the National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Date: February 21, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech about language endangerment and political instability in rural Manipur captions transcript

Speech about language endangerment and political instability in rural Manipur

Video of a presentation from the 2020 workshop 'Language Then and Now: Language Endangerment and Political Instability.' Rex Khullar discusses his experience of how political instability and violence break apart communities and erode their ability to pass down their written and spoken word in the hills of Manipur, India. He talks about how village life can be disrupted when children have to go to larger cities to make money for their families.
Date: February 21, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech about language endangerment and political instability in Mizoram captions transcript

Speech about language endangerment and political instability in Mizoram

Video of a presentation from the 2020 workshop 'Language Then and Now: Language Endangerment and Political Instability.' Lalnunthangi Chhangte discusses her experience of how political instability and violence break apart communities and erode their ability to pass down their written and spoken word in Mizoram, India. She talks about the legacy of colonialism in the area and the stigma toward indigenous groups.
Date: February 21, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech about language endangerment and political instability in Manipuri history captions transcript

Speech about language endangerment and political instability in Manipuri history

Video of a presentation from the 2020 workshop 'Language Then and Now: Language Endangerment and Political Instability.' L. Somi Roy discusses his experience of how political instability and violence break apart communities and erode their ability to pass down their written and spoken word, and the relations between insurgency and writing systems in Manipur.
Date: February 21, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech about language endangerment and political instability in the Manipuri school system captions transcript

Speech about language endangerment and political instability in the Manipuri school system

Video of a presentation from the 2020 workshop 'Language Then and Now: Language Endangerment and Political Instability.' Marjing Mayanglambam discusses his experience of how political instability and violence break apart communities and erode their ability to pass down their written and spoken word, specifically in relation to the scripts used to write the Manipuri language.
Date: February 21, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech about language endangerment and political instability in Northeast India captions transcript

Speech about language endangerment and political instability in Northeast India

Video of a presentation from the 2020 workshop 'Language Then and Now: Language Endangerment and Political Instability.' Pauthang Haokip discusses his experience of how political instability and violence break apart communities and erode their ability to pass down their written and spoken word in Manipur, India.
Date: February 21, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library