Linguistics in a Colonial World: A Story of Language, Meaning, and PowerISBN: 978-1-4051-0570-5
Paperback
210 pages
September 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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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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