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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fabian, Johannes
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1991], ©1986.
Subjects:
Swahili language > Social aspects > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Katanga.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Swahili.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Sociolinguistics
Swahili language > Social aspects
Swahili (taal)
Koloniaal bestuur.
Katanga (Congo) > Languages > Social aspects.
Congo (Democratic Republic) > Katanga
Shaba.
Kongo (Kinshasa)
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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, industrial, artisanal, and artistic. When it was first formulated, the aim of my project was to describe what might be called the workers' culture of Shaba, through analyses of communicative (sociolinguistic) and cognitive (ethnosemantic) aspects of language use.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 206 pages) : map
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-199) and index.
ISBN:9780520911864
0520911865
0585081468
9780585081465

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