Linguistics in a Colonial World A Story of Language, Meaning, and Power

Linguistics in a Colonial World: A Story of Language, Meaning, and Power By Joseph Errington(auth.)
2007 | 210 Pages | ISBN: 1405105690 | PDF | 3 MB
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 centuryContent: Chapter 1 The Linguistic in the Colonial (pages 1-21): Chapter 2 Early Conversions, or, How Spanish Friars Made the Little Jump (pages 22-47): Chapter 3 Imaging the Linguistic Past (pages 48-69): Chapter 4 Philology’s Evolutions (pages 70-92): Chapter 5 Between Pentecost and Pidgins (pages 93-122): Chapter 6 Colonial Linguists, (Proto)?National Languages (pages 123-148): Chapter 7 Postcolonial Postscript (pages 149-171):