Postcolonial linguistic voices : identity choices and representations / edited by Eric A. Anchimbe, Stephen A. Mforteh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anchimbe, Eric A.

Mforteh, Stephen A.

Series:

Contributions to the sociology of language ; 100.

Contributions to the sociology of language ; 100

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics.

Postcolonialism.

Multilingual persons--Social conditions.

Multilingual persons.

Anthropological linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Preface / Anchimbe, Eric A. / Mforteh, Stephen A.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Postcolonial linguistic voices: Stitching together identity choices and their representations / Anchimbe, Eric A.

Part I. Postcolonial identities: Age, gender, ethnicity, and language

Chapter 2. U r ma treasure bila measure. Identity construction in Kenya's multilingual spaces / Meierkord, Christiane

Chapter 3. Gender and cultural identity in a television show in Botswana / Ellece, Sibonile Edith

Chapter 4. The English language and the construction of a Cameroon anglophone identity / Anchimbe, Eric A.

Part II. Nationhood discourses: Language, policy, and politics

Chapter 5. Nation-statehood and linguistic diversity in the postcolony: The case of Portuguese and indigenous languages in Mozambique / Firmino, Gregório

Chapter 6. The emergence of an indigenous language as lingua franca: The case of Luganda in Uganda / Ssempuuma, Jude

Chapter 7. Roles and identities in postcolonial political discourse in Cameroon / Mforteh, Stephen A.

Part III. Translating the postcolonial: Religion and lexicography

Chapter 8. Contesting the sacred in Tamil: Missionary translations and Protestant scriptures in colonial South India / Israel, Hephzibah

Chapter 9. What mental images reveal about religious lexemes in Yoruba and English in present-day Nigerian churches / Odidiomo, Folorunso

Chapter 10. Foreign culture lexicography and beyond: Perspectives from the history of Igbo lexicography / Uchechukwu, Chinedu

Part IV. Living the postcolonial: Local tongues in ex-colonial languages

Chapter 11. Lexical gap, semantic incongruence, and the medium-of-learning effect: Evidence from Chinese-English code-switching in Hong Kong and Taiwan / Li, David C. S.

Chapter 12. Lamnso' English: A study in ethnic variation in Cameroon English / Sala, Bonaventure M.

Part V. Colonising the coloniser: Ex-colonialist discourses and immigration

Chapter 13. Postcolonial continuities in Danish monolingual dictionaries: Towards a critical postcolonial linguistics / Hornscheidt, Antje Lann

Chapter 14. Cape Verdean Creole in Lisbon: The young generation's perspective / Märzhäuser, Christina

Chapter 15. Code-switching among Igbo-Nigerian immigrants in Padua (Italy) / Goglia, Francesco

Conclusion

Chapter 16. Meeting of the exs: The ex-colonised meets the ex-coloniser / Mforteh, Stephen A.

Contributors

Subject Index

Author index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613430441

9781283430449

1283430444

9783110260694

3110260697

OCLC:

767858319