Postcolonial Linguistic Voices: Identity Choices and Representations

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Postcolonial Linguistic Voices

Identity Choices and Representations

Edited by: Eric A. Anchimbe and Stephen A. Mforteh

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2011

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Volume 100 | Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]

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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.

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

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	I
Preface Eric A. Anchimbe and Stephen A. Mforteh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	IX
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	XI
Introduction
Chapter 1. Postcolonial linguistic voices: Stitching together identity choices and their representations Eric A. Anchimbe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
Part I. Postcolonial identities: Age, gender, ethnicity, and language
Chapter 2. U r ma treasure bila measure. Identity construction in Kenya’s multilingual spaces Christiane Meierkord Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
Chapter 3. Gender and cultural identity in a television show in Botswana Sibonile Edith Ellece Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	51
Chapter 4. The English language and the construction of a Cameroon anglophone identity Eric A. Anchimbe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	77
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 Gregório Firmino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	99
Chapter 6. The emergence of an indigenous language as lingua franca: The case of Luganda in Uganda Jude Ssempuuma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
Chapter 7. Roles and identities in postcolonial political discourse in Cameroon Stephen A. Mforteh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
Part III. Translating the postcolonial: Religion and lexicography
Chapter 8. Contesting the sacred in Tamil: Missionary translations and Protestant scriptures in colonial South India Hephzibah Israel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	167
Chapter 9. What mental images reveal about religious lexemes in Yoruba and English in present-day Nigerian churches Folorunso Odidiomo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	183
Chapter 10. Foreign culture lexicography and beyond: Perspectives from the history of Igbo lexicography Chinedu Uchechukwu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
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 David C. S. Li Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	215
Chapter 12. Lamnso’ English: A study in ethnic variation in Cameroon English Bonaventure M. Sala Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	241
Part V. Colonising the coloniser: Ex-colonialist discourses and immigration
Chapter 13. Postcolonial continuities in Danish monolingual dictionaries: Towards a critical postcolonial linguistics Antje Lann Hornscheidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	265
Chapter 14. Cape Verdean Creole in Lisbon: The young generation’s perspective Christina Märzhäuser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	299
Chapter 15. Code-switching among Igbo-Nigerian immigrants in Padua (Italy) Francesco Goglia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	323
Conclusion
Chapter 16. Meeting of the exs: The ex-colonised meets the ex-coloniser Stephen A. Mforteh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	345
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	351
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
Author index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	361

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eBook published on:

October 27, 2011

eBook ISBN:

9783110260694

Hardcover published on:

October 17, 2011

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110260663

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

13

Main content:

365

Illustrations:

11

Tables:

29

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110260694

eBook ISBN: 9783110260694

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110260663

Keywords for this book

Sociolinguistics; Language Contact; Multilingualism; African Studies; Postcolonial Linguistics; Social Anthropology

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

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