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, 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. 

ISBN:	9780520076259
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	16 Aug 1991
DEWEY:	496.3920967518
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	206
Weight:	324g
Height:	155mm
Width:	229mm
Spine width:	20mm

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