Postcolonial Linguistic Voices

Identity Choices and Representations
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-026066-3
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 100, 365 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 719 g

Reihe: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]

This volume investigates sociolinguistic discourses, identity choices and their representations in postcolonial national and social life, and traces them to the impact of colonial contact. The chapters stitch together current voices and identities emerging within both ex-colonized and ex-colonizer communities as each copes with the social, lingual, cultural, and religious mixes triggered by colonialism. These mixes, reflected in the five thematic parts of the book - 'postcolonial identities', 'nationhood discourses', 'translating the postcolonial', 'living the postcolonial', and 'colonizing the colonizer' - call for deeper investigations of postcolonial communities using emic approaches.

Zielgruppe

Institutional Libraries, Students and Researchers in Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Cultural Theory, Language Contact, African Studies, Postcolonial Linguistics, Social Anthropology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mforteh, Stephen A.

Anchimbe, Eric A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung

Über Autor(innen)

Mforteh, Stephen A.
Stephen A. Mforteh, University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon

Anchimbe, Eric A.
Eric A. Anchimbe, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Eric A. Anchimbe, University of Bayreuth, Germany; Stephen A. Mforteh, University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon