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The Linguistic Heritage of Colonial Practice
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.
The Discourse of British and German Colonialism
This volume compares and contrasts British and German colonialist discourses from a variety of angles: philosophical, political, social, economic, legal, and discourse-linguistic. British and German cooperation and competition are presented as complementary forces in the European colonial project from as early as the sixteenth century but especially after the foundation of the German Second Empire in 1871 – the era of the so-called 'Scramble for Africa'. The authors present the points of view not only of the colonizing nations, but also of former colonies, including Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco, Namibia, Tanzania, India, China, and the Pacific Islands. The title will prove invaluable for students and researchers working on British colonial history, German colonial history and post-colonial studies.
Inspecting the Interview
Interviews are omnipresent in scholarship and public discourses. They play a crucial role in various spheres, from collecting research data to providing persons in the public eye a platform in print and online media. Interviews do not only capture a dialogue; they provide a framework in which dialogue gets staged. As such a framework, the interview protocols experiential knowledge and personal experience in certain ways, according interlocutors different degrees of authority to speak. The volume contributes state-of-the-art research on what conclusions can be drawn from these and further reflections for a general assessment of the interview as method and form; it offers fundamental conceptualizations of the interview as a structured and mediated site of knowledge production. Theoreticians and practitioners assembled here conceptualize the interview from perspectives in different fields of the humanities and social sciences such as linguistics, literary and cultural studies, musicology, psychology, and philosophy.
Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics
A lot of what we know about “exotic languages” is owed to the linguistic activities of missionaries. They had the languages put into writing, described their grammar and lexicon, and worked towards a standardization, which often came with Eurocentric manipulation. Colonial missionary work as intellectual (religious) conquest formed part of the Europeans' political colonial rule, although it sometimes went against the specific objectives of the official administration. In most cases, it did not help to stop (or even reinforced) the displacement and discrimination of those languages, despite oftentimes providing their very first (sometimes remarkable, sometimes incorrect) descriptions. This volume presents exemplary studies on Catholic and Protestant missionary linguistics, in the framework of the respective colonial situation and policies under Spanish, German, or British rule. The contributions cover colonial contexts in Latin America, Africa, and Asia across the centuries. They demonstrate how missionaries dealing with linguistic analyses and descriptions cooperated with colonial institutions and how their linguistic knowledge contributed to European domination.
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Deutsche Sprache und Kolonialismus
1884/85 tritt Deutschland in den Kreis der Kolonialmächte, auch wenn es in Bedeutung und faktischer Macht weit hinter den großen Kolonialmächten der Zeit zurückliegt. Der Band befasst sich mit der sprachlich vermittelten kolonisatorischen Identität im deutschen Kaiserreich aus sprachgeschichtlicher und diskursanalytischer Perspektive. Die Bildung der kolonisatorischen Identität ist von der Prägung bestimmter Kommunikationsformen nicht zu trennen. Vor allem durch sprachliches Handeln in ähnlichen Mustern mit übereinstimmenden Themen bildet sich eine gemeinschaftlich erfahrene Gleichheit. Die diskursive, ideologische und phantasierte Identität als Kolonialmacht zeigt sich daher als g...
Erklärte Normalität - Diskursivierung abweichenden Verhaltens am Beispiel der Presseberichterstattung zum Amoklauf in Winnenden
Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Linguistik, Note: 1,2, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Diskurslinguistik - Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Aus der Einleitung: Sieben Jahre nach Erfurt richtet ein weiterer Jugendlicher ein Blutbad in seiner ehemaligen Schule an. Nur Monate später soll es im Bayrischen Ansbach zu einem ähnlichen Vorfall kommen. Ereignisse dieser Art evozieren ob ihrer erschreckenden Gewaltsamkeit und scheinbaren Irrationalität ein enormes öffentliches Interesse. Im Zentrum der vor allem in der medialen Berichterstattung stattfindenden Diskussion steht in erster Linie die ...
