... linguistic modernity metadiscursive regimes Tibet Studies of comedy can seem trivial and in poor taste amidst ongoing political tensions, cultural loss, and economic marginalization in China's Tibet. But comedy can do important work within a society: it can bring pleasure, mask pain, bolster hegemony...

... trajectory in Kerala, where its status as a poetic grammar a reflexively metadiscursive text about texts has left us one of the most explicit and complex records of linguistic identity and ideology for any locale of the premodern world. It is therefore my goal in the present analysis to show how...