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Aspects of (Post)Colonial Linguistics : Current Perspectives and New Approaches.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL) SeriesPublisher: Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (284 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110436907
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Aspects of (Post)Colonial LinguisticsDDC classification:
  • 306.44
LOC classification:
  • P40.5.L38A87 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Arabic language guides written for the British Army during the British occupation of Egypt, 1882-1922 -- Baku Russian: Colonial heritage in a post-colonial era -- Postcolonial language ideologies: Writing in Chabacano -- Hybridized discourse markers in Cameroonian French? The example of déjà -- Kolonial-Deutsch and Français Tirailleur -- The status of Dutch in post-colonial Suriname -- From Accra to Nairobi - The use of pluralized mass nouns in East and West African postcolonial Englishes -- A colonial grammar or arte -- The role of domain and face-to-face contact in borrowing -- Representing bicultural knowledge systems and epistemic decolonization -- Moanus or Titan? On Ludwig Cohn's amateur linguistics -- Index of Authors -- Index of Languages -- Index of Subjects.
Summary: The series provides a platform for Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics. This new sub-discipline of linguistics is inspired by work carried out within the framework of Missionary Linguistics and by recent discussion about language, linguistics and colonialism. KPL/CPL intends to make accessible and comment on texts which are concerned with languages of the former European possessions in overseas and were written during the European colonial era.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Arabic language guides written for the British Army during the British occupation of Egypt, 1882-1922 -- Baku Russian: Colonial heritage in a post-colonial era -- Postcolonial language ideologies: Writing in Chabacano -- Hybridized discourse markers in Cameroonian French? The example of déjà -- Kolonial-Deutsch and Français Tirailleur -- The status of Dutch in post-colonial Suriname -- From Accra to Nairobi - The use of pluralized mass nouns in East and West African postcolonial Englishes -- A colonial grammar or arte -- The role of domain and face-to-face contact in borrowing -- Representing bicultural knowledge systems and epistemic decolonization -- Moanus or Titan? On Ludwig Cohn's amateur linguistics -- Index of Authors -- Index of Languages -- Index of Subjects.

The series provides a platform for Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics. This new sub-discipline of linguistics is inspired by work carried out within the framework of Missionary Linguistics and by recent discussion about language, linguistics and colonialism. KPL/CPL intends to make accessible and comment on texts which are concerned with languages of the former European possessions in overseas and were written during the European colonial era.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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