The Linguistic Heritage of Colonial Practice /

The Linguistic Heritage of Colonial Practice / / ed. by Brigitte Weber.

The contributions of this volume offer both a diachronic and synchronic approach to aspects relating to different areas of colonial life as for example colonial place-naming in a comparative perspective. They comprise topics of diverse interests within the field of language and colonialism and repre...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Bytko, Natali,
Karg, Wolfram,
Krämer, Philipp,
Miccoli, Paolo,
Rodriguez, Yliana,
Schuster, Susanne,
Skybina, Valentyna,
Stolberg, Doris,
Stolz, Thomas,
Warnke, Ingo H.,
Weber, Brigitte,
Wienberg, Marina,
HerausgeberIn:
Weber, Brigitte,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL) , 13
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 254 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Saints, nobility, and other heroes. Colonial place-naming as part of the European linguistic heritage
  • “The making of Greenland” – Early European place names in Kalaallit Nunaat
  • Colonial place-names in Italian East Africa (AOI) (with additional data from Tripoli). The linguistic heritage of colonial practice
  • Linguistic missionary heritage. Capuchin missionary Father Laurentius and his unpublished German-Chuukese dictionary
  • Positioning by naming: Constructing group affiliation in a colonial setting
  • Third-hand colonial linguistics: Adolphe Dietrich’s comparative study of Indian Ocean Creoles
  • Spanish-Guarani diglossia in colonial Paraguay: A language undertaking
  • Construction of (transcontinental) railways as a means of colonization. A corpus-based analysis on the German colonial discourse in postcolonial perspective
  • The Raj English in historical lexicography
  • Anglo-Norman: Language contact and obsolescence
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Languages
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Toponyms

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