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Linguistics in a colonial world : a story of language, meaning, and power / Joseph Errington.

By: Errington, James Joseph, 1951-Contributor(s): Wiley InterScience (Online service)Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008Description: 1 online resource (x, 199 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780470690765; 0470690763; 9780470680490; 0470680490; 9780470765982; 0470765984Subject(s): Linguistics -- History | Colonies | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative | Colonies | Linguistics | Linguïstiek | KolonialismeGenre/Form: Electronic books. | History.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Linguistics in a colonial world.DDC classification: 410.9 LOC classification: P71 | .E77 2008ebOther classification: 17.02 Online resources: Wiley Online Library

Contents:

The linguistic in the colonial -- Early conversions, or, how Spanish friars made the little jump -- Imaging the linguistic past -- Philology's evolutions -- Between Pentecost and pidgins -- Colonial linguists, (proto)-national languages -- Postcolonial postscript.

Action note: digitized 2010 committed to preserveSummary: Drawing on both original texts and critical literature, Linguistics in a Colonial World surveys the methods, meanings, and uses of early linguistic projects around the world.:.; Explores how early endeavours in linguistics were used to aid in overcoming practical and ideological difficulties of colonial rule.; Traces the uses and effects of colonial linguistic projects in the shaping of identities and communities that were under, or in opposition to, imperial regimes.; Examines enduring influences of colonial linguistics in contemporary thinking about language and cultural difference.; Brings.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-187) and indexes.

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Drawing on both original texts and critical literature, Linguistics in a Colonial World surveys the methods, meanings, and uses of early linguistic projects around the world.:.; Explores how early endeavours in linguistics were used to aid in overcoming practical and ideological difficulties of colonial rule.; Traces the uses and effects of colonial linguistic projects in the shaping of identities and communities that were under, or in opposition to, imperial regimes.; Examines enduring influences of colonial linguistics in contemporary thinking about language and cultural difference.; Brings.

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