This article takes an empirical approach to investigate how diasporic identification with the home-land and host-land interacts with language in a mutually influencing dynamic interplay, giving rise to new language ideologies and identities. Since scholars are increasingly of the opinion that the processes of dislocation and resettlement create multi-layered connections with the home-land and host-land (David 2012:377), it is crucial we recognise that the relationship between fixed geographical territories and communities, and the cultural-linguistic practices associated with them, need to be denaturalised (Rosa & Trivedi 2017:331). In doing so, it is possible to retheorise diasporic identity as a sociocultural process. Attention to language can help shift diasporic phenomena away from being defined as ‘bounded, territorialised, static and homogeneous’ (Canagarajah & Silberstein 2012:82). Examining Sri Lankan Tamil diasporic experiences of the home-land and host-land and their relationship with language will promote such an agenda. (Diaspora, space, home-land, host-land)*

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斯里兰卡泰米尔人对祖国和东道国的体验：语言与流散身份之间的相互作用

本文采用实证方法研究侨民对故乡和东道国的认同互动与语言在相互影响的动态相互作用中，产生新的语言意识形态和身份。由于越来越多的学者认为，搬迁和移民的过程与移民产生了多层次的联系。家园和东道国(David 2012:377)，我们必须认识到固定地理区域和社区之间的关系，以及与之相关的文化语言实践，需要去自然化 (Rosa & Trivedi 2017:331)。在这样做的过程中，有可能将侨民身份重新理论化为一个社会文化过程。对语言的关注可以帮助将散居现象从被定义为“有界的、地域化的、静态的和同质的”（Canagarajah & Silberstein 2012:82）。检查斯里兰卡泰米尔人在祖国和东道国的流散经历及其与语言的关系将促进这样的议程。（散居地、太空、家乡、东道国）*