Contact Person : Susan Hagadorn ; Last Date for the submission of abstract : 15/06/2018; New mobilities, new textual modes, and new technologies, have pervaded Asian regions, affecting communication, structuring lifeworlds, and re-authoring identities. As such, language has evolved through ever-changing mediations. While these changes and mediations gain significance, a reflexive focus on cultural origins also emerges as central to global flows, as new human generations increasingly desire to revitalize cultural heritage and its linguistic counterpart. These renewed revitalist foci have arisen in both widespread and minority languages. Central to work on these languages, then, are the frameworks of Anthropology,