Language and colonial power : the appropriation of Swahili in the former Belgian Congo, 1880-1938 /
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, industria...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
[1991], ©1986.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt7zw3bw |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 206 pages) : map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-199) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520911864 0520911865 0585081468 9780585081465 1282356070 9781282356078 0520076257 |