A Language for the World : The Standardization of Swahili / / Morgan J. Robinson
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| Autore: |
Robinson Morgan J. <1986->
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| Titolo: |
A Language for the World : The Standardization of Swahili / / Morgan J. Robinson
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| Pubblicazione: | Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2022] |
| ©2022 | |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (320 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 496.392 |
| Soggetto topico: | Swahili language - Standardization |
| Swahili language - History | |
| Swahili language - Social aspects | |
| Sociolinguistics - Africa, East | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover Page -- New African Histories -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1: "Note-Books and Slowly Accumulating Vocabularies" -- 2: Msimulizi and the Cultivation of the Upelekwa -- 3: German Zeit and Swahili Time -- 4: Interlocutors in Interterritorial Codification -- 5: The East African Literature Bureau: Creating Creativity in Standard Swahili -- 6: Rumblings of Unanticipated Demand -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Based on extensive archival research, this intellectual history of Standard Swahili--a dialect of the Swahili language written in the Latin alphabet--argues that attention to the intertwined processes of codification from 1864 to 1964 lends new perspectives on history, colonialism, time, and cultural representation in East Africa and beyond. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A Language for the World |
| ISBN: | 9780821447819 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910796064203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
New African histories series.