Nolan Lingua Franca and Français Tirailleur

From Sea Jargon to Military Order?
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-30555-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 94 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book explores how the eponymous and original Lingua Franca was recognized as a potential linguistic template for future military and colonial pidgins. The author traces the career trajectory of General Louis Faidherbe, a member of the French colonizing force in Algiers in the early 1830s and a recognized linguist, who rose up through the ranks in various African colonies and was the founder of regiments in West Africa, including the Senegal-based tirailleurs. Their artificially constructed military pidgin, Français Tirailleur, was a language modelled on the reduced grammar and lexicon of Lingua Franca. This book demonstrates the direct link between the two languages, as well as connections with other colonial pidgins in Asia that also derived to some extent from Lingua Franca. It will be of interest to students and scholars of language contact and language history, pidgins and creoles, and military and colonial history.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nolan, Joanna

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: The evolution of Lingua Franca to Sabir and beyond.- Chapter 2: Louis Faidherbe, colonialist and linguist.- Chapter 3: Parallels of Sabir and Français Tirailleur.- Chapter 4: The mixed fortunes of Sabir.

Über Autor(innen)

Joanna Nolan  is a research associate at SOAS in London, UK, from where she holds a PhD in Linguistics. She also holds masters’ degrees from both Oxford and Columbia Universities. She has contributed to BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking programme on the subject of Lingua Franca.