Colonialism and missionary linguistics /
Missionaries played a central role in establishing colonialism (intellectual conquest) inasmuch as they described the "exotic languages" they encountered as an instrument of their missionary work. The language standardization they worked towards often came with Eurocentric manipulation. Th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Español Alemán |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2015]
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Colección: | Koloniale und postkoloniale Linguistik ;
Bd. 5. Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL) |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Part 1. General aspects.
- From missionary linguistics to colonial linguistics / Thomas Stolz, Ingo H. Warnke
- Part 2. Africa.
- Missionary descriptions in a colonial context / Clara mortamet, Céline Amourette
- Case in selected grammars of Swahili / Susanne Hackmack
- The first missionary linguistics in Fernando Po / Susana Castillo-Rodríguez
- Imagined communities, invented tribe? / Martina Anissa Strommer
- Pre-colonial language policy of the Rhenish Mission Society perceived as the type of Gustav Warneck's mission doctrine? / Stefan Castelli
- Reducing languages to writing / Cécile Van den Avenne
- Part 3. America.
- Transculturation, assimilation, and appropriation in the missionary representation of Nahuatl / Catherine Fountain
- Connections between the scientific discourse and the frontier missions in the surroundings of the Viceroyalty of New Granada / Micaela Carrera de la Red, Francisco José Zamora Salamanca
- Examples of transcultural processes in two colonial linguistic documents on Jebero (Peru) / Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus
- Index of persons (including authors)
- Index of languages
- Index of subjects.