By Joseph Errington
- Explores how early endeavours in linguistics have been used to help in overcoming functional and ideological problems of colonial rule
- Traces the makes use of and results of colonial linguistic tasks within the shaping of identities and groups that have been less than, or against, imperial regimes
- Examines enduring affects of colonial linguistics in modern brooding about language and cultural difference
- Brings new perception into post-colonial controversies together with endangered languages and language rights within the globalized twenty-first century
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