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cosmopolitan vernacular: a standalone construct

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Comparative literature

regional languages taking on the literary forms and prestige of a translocal literary language, as South Asian vernaculars did with Sanskrit.

In comparative literature, cosmopolitan vernacular refers to regional languages taking on the literary forms and prestige of a translocal literary language, as South Asian vernaculars did with Sanskrit. This meaning comes from Pollock (1998) in The Journal of Asian Studies.[1]

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References

  1. Pollock, S. (1998). The Cosmopolitan Vernacular. The Journal of Asian Studies, 57(1), 6-37. https://doi.org/10.2307/2659022

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