The Linguistic Heritage of Colonial Practice

The Linguistic Heritage of Colonial Practice
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9783110623710
ISBN-13 : 3110623714
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Book Synopsis The Linguistic Heritage of Colonial Practice by : Brigitte Weber

Download or read book The Linguistic Heritage of Colonial Practice written by Brigitte Weber and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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