Chapter 1. Postcolonial linguistic voices: Stitching together identity choices and their representations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface IX
3. Contents XI
4. Introduction
5. Chapter 1. Postcolonial linguistic voices: Stitching together identity choices and their representations 3
6. Part I. Postcolonial identities: Age, gender, ethnicity, and language
7. Chapter 2. U r ma treasure bila measure. Identity construction in Kenya’s multilingual spaces 25
8. Chapter 3. Gender and cultural identity in a television show in Botswana 51
9. Chapter 4. The English language and the construction of a Cameroon anglophone identity 77
10. Part II. Nationhood discourses: Language, policy, and politics
11. Chapter 5. Nation-statehood and linguistic diversity in the postcolony: The case of Portuguese and indigenous languages in Mozambique 99
12. Chapter 6. The emergence of an indigenous language as lingua franca: The case of Luganda in Uganda 119
13. Chapter 7. Roles and identities in postcolonial political discourse in Cameroon 143
14. Part III. Translating the postcolonial: Religion and lexicography
15. Chapter 8. Contesting the sacred in Tamil: Missionary translations and Protestant scriptures in colonial South India 167
16. Chapter 9. What mental images reveal about religious lexemes in Yoruba and English in present-day Nigerian churches 183
17. Chapter 10. Foreign culture lexicography and beyond: Perspectives from the history of Igbo lexicography 201
18. Part IV. Living the postcolonial: Local tongues in ex-colonial languages
19. Chapter 11. Lexical gap, semantic incongruence, and the medium-of-learning effect: Evidence from Chinese-English code-switching in Hong Kong and Taiwan 215
20. Chapter 12. Lamnso’ English: A study in ethnic variation in Cameroon English 241
21. Part V. Colonising the coloniser: Ex-colonialist discourses and immigration
22. Chapter 13. Postcolonial continuities in Danish monolingual dictionaries: Towards a critical postcolonial linguistics 265
23. Chapter 14. Cape Verdean Creole in Lisbon: The young generation’s perspective 299
24. Chapter 15. Code-switching among Igbo-Nigerian immigrants in Padua (Italy) 323
25. Conclusion
26. Chapter 16. Meeting of the exs: The ex-colonised meets the ex-coloniser 345
27. Contributors 351
28. Subject Index 357
29. Author index 361