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Language and colonial power : the appropriation of Swahili in the former Belgian Congo, 1880-1938 /
In this study, inquiry will be directed to the past, and it will, for many reasons, have to reach into a past which is rather remote from present-day Shaba Swahili. The author's principal concern remains with a contemporary situation, namely the role of Swahili in the context of work, industria...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1991], ©1986.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- A note on names and orthography
- Introduction
- 1 Prelude: expeditions and campaigns
- Polyglotta Africana
- Swahili guides for the road
- On the road: language and travel
- End of the road
- 2 Questions and queries
- A question of law and rights: language and the Colonial Charter
- A question of facts: language in an early government survey
- Responses from businessmen and administrators
- Responses from missionaries and educators
- A question of power: warnings from Katanga
- Some general conclusions
- 3 Settling in: colonization and language
- Missions, education and the oeuvre civilisatrice
- Missionary linguistics
- Religious and secular colonization: common ground
- Language guides and teaching aids
- Colonial language training in Belgium
- 4 Labor and language in Katanga
- Labor in Katanga: a complicated story
- Swahili as a symbol of 'reorientation': consolidation of Belgian rule in Katanga
- Swahili as a work-language: some structural determinants
- 5 Talking tough and bad: pidginization in Katanga
- Missionaries teaching colonists
- Colonists teaching colonists: a guide for farmers in Katanga
- The most common words in Katanga: a curious early manual
- Conclusion: no missing link
- 6 The end: illusions of colonial power
- Swahili and symbolic power
- Codified Swahili in the eastern Congo: an inventory 191838
- 'Improved Swahili': Union Mini232;re and A. Verbeken
- A voice not heard: A. M233;lignon and the 'rehabilitation' of Swahili in Katanga
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.