Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics write by Klaus Zimmermann. This book was released on 2015-03-10. Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lot of what we know about “exotic languages” is owed to the linguistic activities of missionaries. They had the languages put into writing, described their grammar and lexicon, and worked towards a standardization, which often came with Eurocentric manipulation. Colonial missionary work as intellectual (religious) conquest formed part of the Europeans' political colonial rule, although it sometimes went against the specific objectives of the official administration. In most cases, it did not help to stop (or even reinforced) the displacement and discrimination of those languages, despite oftentimes providing their very first (sometimes remarkable, sometimes incorrect) descriptions. This volume presents exemplary studies on Catholic and Protestant missionary linguistics, in the framework of the respective colonial situation and policies under Spanish, German, or British rule. The contributions cover colonial contexts in Latin America, Africa, and Asia across the centuries. They demonstrate how missionaries dealing with linguistic analyses and descriptions cooperated with colonial institutions and how their linguistic knowledge contributed to European domination.
Aspects of (Post)Colonial Linguistics
Aspects of (Post)Colonial Linguistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aspects of (Post)Colonial Linguistics write by Daniel Schmidt-Brücken. This book was released on 2016-01-15. Aspects of (Post)Colonial Linguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Research in Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics has experienced a significant increase in contributions from varying fields of language studies, gaining the attention of scholars from all over the world. This volume aims to showcase the variety of topics relevant to the study of language(s) in colonial, postcolonial and decolonial contexts. A main reason of this variety is that the new paradigm invites and necessitates research on different subject matters such as language typology, grammar and cross-linguistics, meta-linguistics and research on language ideology, discourse analysis and pragmatics. The contributions of this volume are selected, peer-reviewed papers which were partly invited and partly given at the First Bremen Conference on Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, held in September 2013.
Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics
Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics write by Klaus Zimmermann. This book was released on 2015-03-10. Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lot of what we know about “exotic languages” is owed to the linguistic activities of missionaries. They had the languages put into writing, described their grammar and lexicon, and worked towards a standardization, which often came with Eurocentric manipulation. Colonial missionary work as intellectual (religious) conquest formed part of the Europeans' political colonial rule, although it sometimes went against the specific objectives of the official administration. In most cases, it did not help to stop (or even reinforced) the displacement and discrimination of those languages, despite oftentimes providing their very first (sometimes remarkable, sometimes incorrect) descriptions. This volume presents exemplary studies on Catholic and Protestant missionary linguistics, in the framework of the respective colonial situation and policies under Spanish, German, or British rule. The contributions cover colonial contexts in Latin America, Africa, and Asia across the centuries. They demonstrate how missionaries dealing with linguistic analyses and descriptions cooperated with colonial institutions and how their linguistic knowledge contributed to European domination.
Language Learning and Teaching in Missionary and Colonial Contexts
Language Learning and Teaching in Missionary and Colonial Contexts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Learning and Teaching in Missionary and Colonial Contexts write by Dan Savatovsky. This book was released on 2023-08-31. Language Learning and Teaching in Missionary and Colonial Contexts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume assembles texts dedicated to the linguistic and educational aspects of missionary and colonial enterprises, taking into account all continents and with an extended diachronic perspective (15th-20th centuries). Strictly speaking, this "linguistics" is contemporary to the colonial era, so it is primarily the work of missionaries of Catholic orders and Protestant societies. It can also belong to a retrospective outlook, following decolonization. In the first category, one mostly finds transcription, translation, and grammatization practices (typically, the production of dictionaries and grammar books). In the second category, one finds in addition descriptions of language use, of situations of diglossia, and of contact between languages. Within this framework, the volume focuses on educational and linguistic policies, language teaching and learning, and the didactics that were associated with them.
Grammars of Colonialism
Grammars of Colonialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grammars of Colonialism write by Rachael Gilmour. This book was released on 2006-10-10. Grammars of Colonialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The study of languages was crucial to colonial power in 18th and 19th-century South Africa. This important book examines representations of the South African Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu, revealing the ways in which colonial linguistics contributed to both the making of the colonial order and to instabilities at the heart of the project.
