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Autore: | Robinson Morgan J. <1986-> |
Titolo: | A Language for the World : The Standardization of Swahili / / Morgan J. Robinson |
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.: | 9910819647803321 |
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