Colonialism and Linguistics

Carsten Levisen; Naja Trondhjem

doi:10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00035-1

Colonialism and Linguistics

Carsten Levisen^*
, Naja Trondhjem^*

^*Corresponding author

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Abstract

Language and colonialism are entangled in intricate ways, and so is the discipline of linguistics and colonialism. European colonialism resulted in major linguistic shifts and turbulence in the world, from language death to the creation of hybrid ways of speaking. In work on language and colonialism, approaches from decolonial and postcolonial linguistics are providing new analytical lenses on colonialism from a linguistic viewpoint, studying ways of speaking and language ideologies in contact-zones, but also critically evaluating the role of linguistics as a part of the colonial matrix of power, and exploring the alternatives to Eurocentric linguistic tradition of analysis

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics
Publisher	Elsevier
Publication date	2024
Edition	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00035-1
Publication status	Published - 2024

Bibliographical note

This chapter is In Press, currently published online in The Reference Module in Social Sciences. This resource contains the most recent, accepted, editorially reviewed chapters that are not yet assigned to any major reference works, but are citable using the DOI.

Keywords

Colonialism
Postcolonial linguistics
Linguistic ideology
Eurocentrism
Eurocolonial languages

Access to Document

10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00035-1

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