Gilmour Grammars of Colonialism

Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-230-28685-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 231 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection

The study of languages was crucial to colonial power in 18th and 19th-century South Africa. This important book examines representations of the South African Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu, revealing the ways in which colonial linguistics contributed to both the making of the colonial order and to instabilities at the heart of the project.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gilmour, Rachael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Language in the Land of the 'Hottentots' and 'Caffres': European Travellers in the Eastern Cape, 1652-1806 Of Translation and Transformations: The Beginnings of Missionary Linguistics in South Africa Studying Language in the 'Moral Wilderness': Methodist Missionaries on the Eastern Cape Frontier Language, Culture, and 'The Native Mind': Missionary Language Study in Natal and the Zulu Kingdom From Languages to Language: The Comparative Philologist in South Africa Conclusion Index

Über Autor(innen)

RACHAEL GILMOUR is Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.