Linguistics in a Colonial World
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Linguistics in a Colonial World

A Story of Language, Meaning, and Power

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Linguistics in a Colonial World

A Story of Language, Meaning, and Power

About this book

Drawing on both original texts and critical literature, Linguistics in a Colonial World surveys the methods, meanings, and uses of early linguistic projects around the world.

  • Explores how early endeavours in linguistics were used to aid in overcoming practical and ideological difficulties of colonial rule
  • Traces the uses and effects of colonial linguistic projects in the shaping of identities and communities that were under, or in opposition to, imperial regimes
  • Examines enduring influences of colonial linguistics in contemporary thinking about language and cultural difference
  • Brings new insight into post-colonial controversies including endangered languages and language rights in the globalized twenty-first century

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Figures and Table
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. 1 The Linguistic in the Colonial
  6. 2 Early Conversions,or,How Spanish Friars Made the Little Jump
  7. 3 Imaging the Linguistic Past
  8. 4 Philology ’s Evolutions
  9. 5 Between Pentecost and Pidgins
  10. 6 Colonial Linguists,(Proto)-National Languages
  11. 7 Postcolonial Postscript
  12. References
  13. Languages Index
  14. Persons Index
  15. Subject Index