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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

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

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 24/08/2007
    ISBN13: 9781405105699, 978-1405105699
    ISBN10: 1405105690

    Number of Pages: 212

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

    Description

    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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