The Linguistic Heritage of Colonial Practice

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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Other Authors: Weber, Brigitte
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter, [2019]
Series:Koloniale und postkoloniale Linguistik ; Band 13.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction / Weber, Brigitte
  • Saints, nobility, and other heroes. Colonial place-naming as part of the European linguistic heritage / Stolz, Thomas / Warnke, Ingo H.
  • "The making of Greenland"
  • Early European place names in Kalaallit Nunaat / Schuster, Susanne
  • Colonial place-names in Italian East Africa (AOI) (with additional data from Tripoli). The linguistic heritage of colonial practice / Miccoli, Paolo
  • Linguistic missionary heritage. Capuchin missionary Father Laurentius and his unpublished German-Chuukese dictionary / Wienberg, Marina
  • Positioning by naming: Constructing group affiliation in a colonial setting / Stolberg, Doris
  • Third-hand colonial linguistics: Adolphe Dietrich's comparative study of Indian Ocean Creoles / Krämer, Philipp
  • Spanish-Guarani diglossia in colonial Paraguay: A language undertaking / Rodriguez, Yliana
  • Construction of (transcontinental) railways as a means of colonization. A corpus-based analysis on the German colonial discourse in postcolonial perspective / Karg, Wolfram
  • The Raj English in historical lexicography / Skybina, Valentyna / Bytko, Natali
  • Anglo-Norman: Language contact and obsolescence / Weber, Brigitte
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Languages
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Toponyms