Linguistics in a Colonial World a story of language, meaning, and power
"As knowledge of exotic languages became important for colonial power, linguistic scholarship became a crucial contributing element to colonial regimes. Linguistics in a Colonial World draws on both original texts and critical literature to survey the methods, meanings, and uses of linguistics...
| Main Author: | ERRINGTON, James Joseph, 1951- (-) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
Malden, MA ; Oxford :
Blackwell Pub
, 2008.
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| Online Access: |
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Daftar Isi:
- 1.
- The linguistic in the colonial
- 2.
- Early conversions, or, how Spanish friars made the little jump
- 3.
- Imaging the linguistic past
- 4.
- Philology's evolutions
- 5.
- Between Pentecost and pidgins
- 6.
- Colonial linguists, (proto)-national languages
- 7.
- Postcolonial postscript.