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Congratulations to Justin Pinta!

October 21, 2019

Congratulations to Justin Pinta!

Justin Pinta
Justin Pinta’s project “Minority Language Resilience in Corrientes, Argentina” has been selected for funding under the 2019 U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship Program!
 
As you may know, the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship Program provides opportunities to doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. The program is designed to contribute to the development and improvement of the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States.  The DDRA grant is highly competitive with only approximately 90 awards selected annually for funding nationwide, across disciplines, and Justin was the only Fulbright Hays awardee from Ohio State this year!
 
During his six-month stay in Argentina, Justin will use “an interdisciplinary approach … [to] investigate the transmission and educational presence of Correntinean Guarani, a distinct variety of Guarani spoken by perhaps 200,000 people in the Argentine province of Corrientes. Its survival to the present day makes it a valuable example of minority language resilience, and that it is a rare case of an indigenous language in the Americas whose speakers identify as ethnically non-indigenous makes its resilience perhaps more remarkable in a country largely scornful of any cultural ties to indigeneity. [He will] address two primary questions: (1) How and why has Correntinean Guarani been maintained in the face of centuries of ideological hostility? (2) How is the local education system affecting language use in the province? The case of Correntinean Guarani has implications for our understanding of minority language maintenance, language planning, the role of language in the identity of marginalized minority groups, and the interaction of language and societal factors.”
 
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