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Language and Colonial Power: The Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo 1880-1938

By Johannes Fabian

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780520911864
DOI
10.1525/9780520911864
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13778759 bytes)
Pages
212\216
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 15:36:23

Description

In this study, inquiry will be directed to the past, and it will, for many reasons, have to reach into a past which is rather remote from present-day Shaba Swahili. The author's principal concern remains with a contemporary situation, namely the role of Swahili in the context of work, industrial, artisanal, and artistic. When it was first formulated, the aim of my project was to describe what might be called the workers' culture of Shaba, through analyses of communicative (sociolinguistic) and cognitive (ethnosemantic) aspects of language use.

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