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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL) ; 13Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (X, 254 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110620054
  • 9783110621280
  • 9783110623710
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 410 23
LOC classification:
  • P121 .L5145 2019
  • P121 .L515 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
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 Capuchin missionary Father Laurentius and his unpublished German-Chuukese dictionary -- Positioning by naming: Constructing group affiliation in a colonial setting -- Third-hand colonial linguistics: Adolphe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
Summary: 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 represent the linguistic fields of sociolinguistics, onomastics, historical linguistics, language contact, obsolescence convergence and divergence, (colonial) discourse, lexicography and creolistics.
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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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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 represent the linguistic fields of sociolinguistics, onomastics, historical linguistics, language contact, obsolescence convergence and divergence, (colonial) discourse, lexicography and creolistics.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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