Positioning by naming: Constructing group affiliation in a colonial setting
- Defining groups and affiliating the self and the other with specific social categories is an important part of constructing a colonial conceptualization of societies. Many written documents from the colonial period attest to this practice. The current paper focuses on missionaries’ ways of positioning themselves and others within the colonial context. The German speaking Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft (RMG, Rhenish Mission Society) established mission stations in the Astrolabe Bay area of New Guinea, an area that was under German domination between 1884 and 1914. The paper analyzes how RMG missionaries, by means of language, construct, define, and position different population groups, and it investigates what patterns emerge from these language practices.
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| Author: | Doris StolbergGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-84357 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623710-006 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-11-062005-4 |
| Parent Title (English): | The Linguistic Heritage of Colonial Practice |
| Series (Serial Number): | Koloniale und postkoloniale Linguistik (13) |
| Publisher: | de Gruyter |
| Place of publication: | Berlin [u.a.] |
| Editor: | Brigitte Weber |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2019 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2019/01/22 |
| Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
| Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
| Tag: | colonial group construction; genericity; mission societies; positioning of self and other; stereotyping |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Kolonialismus; Papua-Neuguinea; Rheinische Missions-Gesellschaft; Stereotypisierung |
| First Page: | 115 |
| Last Page: | 138 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Soziolinguistik |
| Program areas: | Lexik |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |