Language and Colonial Power: The Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo, 1880-1938

by Johannes Fabian

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Among the preconditions for establishing colonial authority was communication with the colonised. Verbal exchanges depended on a shared communicative praxis providing common ground on which unilateral claims could be imposed. Use of, and control over, verbal means of communication were needed to maintain regimes - military, religious-ideological, economic - in power. In the Belgian Congo brutal physical force never ceased to be exercised. In this...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520076257

ISBN13:9780520076259

Release Date:August 1991

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:212 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Anthropology Criticism & Theory Cultural Education & Reference Foreign Language Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses Foreign Language Fiction Foreign Language Learning Foreign Language Study Foreign Language Study & Reference

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