Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics
A lot of what we know about exotic languages is owed to the linguistic activities of missionaries. They had the languages put into writing, described their grammar and lexicon, and worked towards a standardization, which often came with Eurocentric manipulation. Colonial missionary work as intellectual (religious) conquest formed part of the Europeans' political colonial rule, although it sometimes went against the specific objectives of the official administration. In most cases, it did not help to stop (or even reinforced) the displacement and discrimination of those languages, despite oftentimes providing their very first (sometimes remar…
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Weitere Autoren: Kellermeier-Rehbein, Birte (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-11-040320-6
- EAN: 9783110403206
- Produktnummer: 17084827
- Verlag: De Gruyter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 276 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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Klaus Zimmermann, Bremen University; Birte Kellermeier-Rehbein, Wuppertal University, Germany.
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