Language and colonial power :: the appropriation of Swahili in the former Belgian Congo, 1880-1938 /

In this study, inquiry will be directed to the past, and it will, for many reasons, have to reach into a past which is rather remote from present-day Shaba Swahili. The author's principal concern remains with a contemporary situation, namely the role of Swahili in the context of work, industria...

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1. Verfasser: Fabian, Johannes
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1991], ©1986.
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Zusammenfassung:In this study, inquiry will be directed to the past, and it will, for many reasons, have to reach into a past which is rather remote from present-day Shaba Swahili. The author's principal concern remains with a contemporary situation, namely the role of Swahili in the context of work, industrial, artisanal, and artistic. When it was first formulated, the aim of my project was to describe what might be called the workers' culture of Shaba, through analyses of communicative (sociolinguistic) and cognitive (ethnosemantic) aspects of language use.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (ix, 206 pages) : map
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-199) and index.
ISBN:9780520911864
0520911865
0585081468
9780585081465

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