Daniel Schmidt-Brücken - Böcker

Die sich etablierende Forschungsdisziplin der Koloniallinguistik greift den Zusammenhang von sprachlicher Kommunikation und kolonialen und postkolonialen Machtkonstellationen auf, der in der aktuellen Forschung von immer größerem Interesse ist. Zum einen erfährt das Fachgebiet wachsende Aufmerksamkeit in der linguistischen Community, zum anderen findet es Resonanz in der universitären Lehre im Bachelor- und Master-Bereich, wo das Thema „Sprache und Kolonialismus“ aufgegriffen und mit Studierenden (weiter-)entwickelt wird.Zur Beförderung von Lehre und Selbststudium liegt mit diesem Studienbuch eine Einführung vor, die den aktuellen Forschungsstand und zentrale Konzepte der wissenschaftlichen Beschäftigung mit sprachlicher Kommunikation in (post-)kolonialen Kontexten verständlich darstellt.Das Buch ermöglicht den Studierenden einen sprachwissenschaftlich angeleiteten Zugang zum Thema, legt dann real-, literar- und sprachhistorische Fundamente, führt in praktische Probleme der sprachwissenschaftlichen Korpusbildung ein, zeigt die Bandbreite der Möglichkeiten koloniallinguistischer Forschung auf und reißt postkoloniale Perspektiven an. Eine editorisch aufbereitete Bibliographie von bestehender Forschung, anderen einführenden Werken und zentralen Quellenarten und -orten ist den Kapiteln abschließend beigegeben.

Research in Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics has experienced a significant increase in contributions from varying fields of language studies, gaining the attention of scholars from all over the world.This volume aims to showcase the variety of topics relevant to the study of language(s) in colonial, postcolonial and decolonial contexts. A main reason of this variety is that the new paradigm invites and necessitates research on different subject matters such as language typology, grammar and cross-linguistics, meta-linguistics and research on language ideology, discourse analysis and pragmatics.The contributions of this volume are selected, peer-reviewed papers which were partly invited and partly given at the First Bremen Conference on Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, held in September 2013.

Language in Text and Discourse is an innovative state-of-the-art interdisciplinary series of monographs and edited collections that focus on cutting-edge linguistic studies at the interface between discourse and society including corpus approaches. This series is a forum for studies of language in interaction with other semiotic modes which address the question of how meanings are activated, remade or re-shaped within a variety of contexts and interactions, such as social or textual structures, places, styles, or discursive moments. These are considered to be resources for placemaking or positioning, which correlate and are indexically linked with repetitive semiotic patterns. Verbal and non-verbal positioning as well as conventionalised forms of patterning determine, construe and reflect historically variable concepts of social reality. These are part of a complex network of discursive realities, power relations and voices. The series incorporates studies of social styling and language usage as well as processes of position-ing in a number of different linguistic as well as social, cultural, aesthetic and historical contexts. By transcending disciplinary boundaries the series is integrative in a number of ways. We will publish linguistic studies written in English or German about grammatical, knowledge-oriented, stylistic and sociolinguistic approaches within the fields of discourse analy-sis or corpus linguistics. These studies com-bine quantitative and qualitative investigations or represent mono- or multi-modal analyses. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Editors:Beatrix Busse, professor of English linguistics, is Vice-rector for teaching and learning at the University of Köln (Germany).Ingo H. Warnke holds the chair of German linguistics and interdisciplinary linguistics at the University of Bremen (Germany).