The Linguistic Heritage of Colonial Practice Brigitte Weber.
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TextSeries: Koloniale und postkoloniale Linguistik ; Band 13.Publisher: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)ISBN: 9783110623710; 3110623714; 9783110621280; 3110621282Subject(s): colonial infrastructure | Colonial placenames | Kolonialzeit | Missionarstätigkeit | missionary activity | Ortsnamen/i.d. Kolonialzeit | Raj English | Linguistics | Colonialism -- History | Colonies -- History | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & ComparativeGenre/Form: EBSCO eBooks | Electronic books. DDC classification: 410 LOC classification: P121 | .L515 2019Online resources: EBSCOhost Summary: The contributions of this volume offer both a diachronic and synchronic approach to aspects relating to different areas of colonial life as for example colonial place-naming in a comparative perspective. They comprise topics of diverse interests within the field of language and colonialism and represent the linguistic fields of sociolinguistics, onomastics, historical linguistics, language contact, obsolescence convergence and divergence, (colonial) discourse, lexicography and creolistics.
The contributions of this volume offer both a diachronic and synchronic approach to aspects relating to different areas of colonial life as for example colonial place-naming in a comparative perspective. They comprise topics of diverse interests within the field of language and colonialism and represent the linguistic fields of sociolinguistics, onomastics, historical linguistics, language contact, obsolescence convergence and divergence, (colonial) discourse, lexicography and creolistics.
In English.
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