{"product_id":"linguistics-in-a-colonial-world-isbn-9781405105699","title":"Linguistics in a Colonial World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrawing on both original texts and critical literature, \u003ci\u003eLinguistics in a Colonial World\u003c\/i\u003e surveys the methods, meanings, and uses of early linguistic projects around the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores how early endeavours in linguistics were used to aid in overcoming practical and ideological difficulties of colonial rule\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTraces the uses and effects of colonial linguistic projects in the shaping of identities and communities that were under, or in opposition to, imperial regimes\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines enduring influences of colonial linguistics in contemporary thinking about language and cultural difference\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings new insight into post-colonial controversies including endangered languages and language rights in the globalized twenty-first century\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Preface. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures and Table.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Linguistic in the Colonial.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Early Conversions, or, How Spanish Friars Made the Little Jump.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Imaging the Linguistic Past.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Philology's Evolutions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Between Pentecost and Pidgins.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Colonial Linguists, (Proto)-National Languages.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Postcolonial Postscript.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage Index.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePersons Index.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index\u003c\/p\u003e  \"This slim book covers a lot of ground, geographically, historically, and intellectually.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/i\u003e, December 2008)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\"Errington … provides a useful overview of analytical and methodological developments and changing applications in the history of linguistics. Highly recommended.\" (\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e, November 2008)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The succinctness of the writing and the importance of the central argument make the reviewed text likely to appear on many course syllabi.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal of Sociolinguistics\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eJoseph Errington\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Anthropology and International and Area Studies, as well as Chair of the Council of Southeast Asian Studies, at Yale University. His research and writing have focused on linguistic dimensions of modernization and identity in Java and Indonesia, reflecting his broader interests in semiotics and the politics of language. As knowledge of exotic languages became important for colonial power, linguistic scholarship became a crucial contributing element to colonial regimes. \u003ci\u003eLinguistics in a Colonial World\u003c\/i\u003e draws on both original texts and critical literature to survey the methods, meanings, and uses of linguistics in and for colonial projects over three centuries. By focussing on the shaping effects of linguists’ work on identities and communities, this book foregrounds their field's larger meanings and uses for the practical and ideological challenges of colonial rule. Additionally, it traces continuities between colonial and postcolonial politics of culture as they emerge in contemporary controversies over language endangerment and rights in a globalizing twenty-first century.  \"This book provides both an introduction and an innovative argument about the development of colonial linguistics and its place in the rise of 19th century European linguistics as a field of expert knowledge. This is stimulating scholarship and a valuable teaching resource for linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, history of linguistics, cultural studies and historiography.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKathryn Woolard, University of California: San Diego \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\"This splendid history of ideas is a nuanced reflection on how language and humanity became each other's deepest theoretical mirrors as the world made the transition from colonialism to the more recent forms of globalization. It is also a superb contribution to the general dialogue between linguistics and its cognate human sciences.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eArjun Appadurai, The New School\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In this concise, eloquent yet wide-ranging book, Joseph Errington demonstrates the importance of understanding linguistics as a special kind of colonial encounter. Linguistics, he shows, has always operated within particular relations of power, constructs of sameness and difference, and ways of reducing languages to writing. The European science of language helped legislate on the one hand national difference in Europe and on the other human inequality in European empires. Linguistics, Errington shows, may claim scientificity but it can never be insulated from the speech of those it studies; it is always entangled with contexts, projects and linguistic ideologies from the past. This book therefore provides not only key historical discussion of the long and fraught connections among colonialism, linguistic description, literacy practices, and social imaginations, but also challenges any contemporary practising linguist – whether engaged in pan-human speculations about universal language, continuing missionary linguistic projects, or attempts to save and preserve endangered languages – to understand current postcolonial linguistic projects in relation to the colonial past.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlastair Pennycook, University of Technology-Sydney\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989532623077,"sku":"NP9781405105699","price":143.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405105699.jpg?v=1761784489","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/linguistics-in-a-colonial-world-isbn-9781405105699","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}