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Language and Colonial Power: The Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo, 1880-1938 (African Studies) | 
 enlarge | Author: Johannes Fabian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 4027762
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 214
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0521308704
Dewey Decimal Number: 496.392019
EAN: 9780521308700
ASIN: 0521308704
Publication Date: March 31, 1986
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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 study Professor Fabian examines the more subtle uses of power through controls on communication, by looking at the history of Swahili as it spread from the East Coast to Central Africa and demonstrating connections between -changing forms of colonial power and the development of policies towards Swahili. Using a wide range of sources, including numerous and sometimes obscure vocabularies, he combines concepts derived from literary theory and sociolinguistics to uncover, through the flaws and failures of these texts, deep-seated attitudes to language and communication.
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