Description: Linguistics in a Colonial World : A Story of Language, Meaning, and Power, Hardcover by Errington, Joseph, ISBN 1405105690, ISBN-13 9781405105699, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Errington (anthropology and international and area studies, Yale U.) investigates colonial dictionaries, grammars, and related texts written over three centuries of the colonial era, viewing them as "a means for adapting and exploiting familiar categories in ways which enabled power and legitimized authority in unfamiliar tongues" and as means of supporting other categories of colonial difference. Such an investigation is made possible by the recognition that matters of linguistic identity such as "dialect" and "accent" can disguise complex social categories of region, race, ethnicity, religion, class, gender, and age, as well as the complexities of people's intersubjective orientations that are sometimes subsumed under the linguistic label of "style." He traces the shifting colonial purposes and values of linguistic descriptive work done by Spanish Catholic missionaries in 17th century Mexico and the Philippines, Protestant missionaries in 19th century sub-Saharan Africa, and in the Belgian Congo and the Dutch East Indies. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Linguistics in a Colonial World : A Story of Language, Meaning, a
Number of Pages: 212 Pages
Publication Name: Linguistics in a Colonial World : a Story of Language, Meaning, and Power
Language: English
Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 2007
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.4 in
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
Author: Joseph Errington
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
