ISBN:
9783110260694
,
9781283430449
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIV, 368 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] 100
Series Statement:
Contributions to the sociology of language
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Postcolonial linguistic voices
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Sociolinguistics
;
Postcolonialism
;
Multilingual persons Social conditions
;
Anthropological linguistics
;
Social Anthropology Postcolonial Linguistics
;
Language Contact
;
Sociolinguistics
;
Multilingualism
;
African Studies
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Postkolonialismus
;
Soziolinguistik
;
Mehrsprachigkeit
Abstract:
This book studies discourses and linguistic choices in both ex-colonized and ex-colonizer communities as each copes with the outcomes of colonialism. The construction of identities, the translation of religious texts, the discursive construction of nations, the use of indigenized varieties of colonial languages, and the emergence of diaspora communities are salient topics in postcolonial linguistics, and are treated here with great expertise by the authors. The book complements and expands upon traditional descriptions of multilingualism
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Postcolonial linguistic voices: Stitching together identity choices and their representations; I. Postcolonial identities: Age, gender, ethnicity, and language; Chapter 2. U r ma treasure bila measure: Identity construction in Kenya's multilingual spaces; Chapter 3. Gender and cultural identity in a television show in Botswana; Chapter 4. The English language and the construction of a Cameroon anglophone identity; II. Nationhood discourses: Language, policy, and politics
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 5. Nation-statehood and linguistic diversity in the postcolony: The case of Portuguese and indigenous languages in MozambiqueChapter 6. The emergence of an indigenous language as lingua franca: The case of Luganda in Uganda; Chapter 7. Roles and identities in postcolonial political discourse in Cameroon; III. Translating the postcolonial: Religion and lexicography; Chapter 8. Contesting the sacred in Tamil: Missionary translations and Protestant scriptures in colonial South India
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 9. What mental images reveal about religious lexemes in Yoruba and English in present-day Nigerian churchesChapter 10. Foreign culture lexicography and beyond: Perspectives from the history of Igbo lexicography; IV. Living the postcolonial: Local tongues in ex-colonial languages; Chapter 11. Lexical gap, semantic incongruence, and the medium-of-learning effect: Evidence from Chinese-English code-switching in Hong Kong and Taiwan; Chapter 12. Lamnso' English: A study in ethnic variation in Cameroon English; V. Colonising the coloniser: Ex-colonialist discourses and immigration
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 13. Postcolonial continuities in Danish monolingual dictionaries: Towards a critical postcolonial linguisticsChapter 14. Cape Verdean Creole in Lisbon: The young generation's perspective; Chapter 15. Code-switching among Igbo-Nigerian immigrants in Padua (Italy); Conclusion; Chapter 16. Meeting of the exs: The ex-colonised meets the ex-coloniser; Contributors; Subject index; Author index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1515/9783110260694
URL:
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