Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Acknowledgments XIII
4. Writing conventions XV
5. 1 What is Postcolonial Semantics? 1
6. 2 Meanings and metalanguage 25
7. 3 Postcolonial semantics and popular geopolitics 48
8. 4 Metalinguistics and the Multipolar Turn 77
9. 5 Postcolonial lexicography: A dictionary of social words and worlds 106
10. 6 Anglo emotions and affective sciences: A cross-semantic confrontation 155
11. 7 Orders of ortholexy: A cultural and critical theory of good words and bad words 188
12. 8 Parting remarks 216
13. Appendix 1: An annotated guide to Bislama exponents of semantic primes 225
14. References 231
15. Index 251