Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics

Acaba de salir publicado el volumen Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics (de Gruyter, Berlín, 2015).  número 5 dentro de la colección: "Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics" (Formato: Hardcover, 266 págs., ISBN-13: 9783110360486. Precio: 99,95 EUR, USD 140.00).

Editado por Klaus Zimmermann y Birte Kellermeier-Rehbein, cuenta con aportaciones de distintos especialistas acerca de las actividades lingüísticas de misioneros que estudiaron lenguas, consideradas "exóticas" desde un punto de vista occidental, que se hablaban en época colonial en Hispanoamérica, África o Asia bajo el dominio de españoles, ingleses o alemanes.

El volumen contiene los siguientes apartados: 

Part 1: General aspects

Thomas Stolz and Ingo H. Warnke
From missionary linguistics to colonial linguistics

Part 2: Africa

Clara Mortamet and Céline Amourette
Missionary descriptions in a colonial context

Susanne Hackmack
Case in selected grammars of Swahili

Susana Castillo-Rodríguez
The first missionary linguistics in Fernando Po

Martina Anissa Strommer
Imagined communities, invented tribe?

Stefan Castelli
Pre-colonial language policy of the Rhenish Mission Society perceived as the type of Gustav Warneck’s mission doctrine?

Cécile Van den Avenne
Reducing languages to writing

Part 3: America

Catherine Fountain
Transculturation, assimilation, and appropriation in the missionary representation of Nahuatl

Micaela Carrera de la Red and Francisco José Zamora Salamanca
Connections between the scientific discourse and the frontier missions in the surroundings of the Viceroyalty of New Granada

Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus
Examples of transcultural processes in two colonial linguistic documents on Jebero (Peru)

Index of Persons (including authors)
Index of Languages
Index of Subjects

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