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

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):