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Linguistics in a Colonial World - 9781405105699

Un libro in lingua di Joseph Errington edito da John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2007

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Errington (anthropology and international and area studies, Yale U.) investigates colonial dictionaries, grammars, and related texts written over three centuries of the colonial era, viewing them as "a means for adapting and exploiting familiar categories in ways which enabled power and legitimized authority in unfamiliar tongues" and as means of supporting other categories of colonial difference. Such an investigation is made possible by the recognition that matters of linguistic identity such as "dialect" and "accent" can disguise complex social categories of region, race, ethnicity, religion, class, gender, and age, as well as the complexities of people's intersubjective orientations that are sometimes subsumed under the linguistic label of "style." He traces the shifting colonial purposes and values of linguistic descriptive work done by Spanish Catholic missionaries in 17th century Mexico and the Philippines, Protestant missionaries in 19th century sub-Saharan Africa, and in the Belgian Congo and the Dutch East Indies. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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