Advances in Comparative Colonial Toponomastics

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Advances in Comparative Colonial Toponomastics

Edited by: Nataliya Levkovych

Volume 14 in the series Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL)

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110712452

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About this book

For the better understanding of the cultural and linguistic impact of colonialism on the shaping of the world as we know it today it is necessary to take account of the Europeanization of the map of the extra-European countries.
To achieve this goal Comparative Colonial Toponomastics (CoCoTop) investigates the place names which were coined in the era of colonialism in the erstwhile possessions of European colonizer nations. This edited volume offers new insights into the toponomastic manifestations of Danish, French, German, Italian, and Spanish colonialism. The focus is on hitherto unexplored macrotoponyms and microtoponyms. Their structural and functional aspects are described. They are linked to the colonial history of the various nations involved. A general toponomastic framework beyond CoCoTop is presented additionally. Several of the papers mark the starting point of recently initiated new research projects.
The volume is of special interest to onomasticians, scholars working in colonial and postcolonial linguistics, and historians of colonialism.

Author / Editor information

Nataliya Levkovych, Universität Bremen, Deutschland.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Nataliya Levkovych Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Part I: General Toponomastics
Theoretical considerations in the linguistic analysis of toponyms Valéria Tóth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part II: CoCoTop Studies
Spanish and French colonial toponyms in the territory of present-day USA (16th to 18th century) Sandra Herling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Vorland-Nyika and Kumbamulde. The handling of indigenous place names in Oskar Baumann’s Usambara writings Marie A. Rieger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Martin Luther at a Pacific harbor. Toponymic classifiers and their role in German colonial place-making Ingo H. Warnke, Thomas Stolz, Jascha de Blom and Nataliya Levkovych Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Places without names and names without places? On the blank maps of the Gani-Islands Thomas Stolz and Nataliya Levkovych Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Between Arabic philology and colonial enterprise. Carlo Alfonso Nallino (1872– 1938), Eugenio Griffini (1878–1925) and Libyan toponymy Riccardo Contini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Part III: Reports
Danish colonial toponomastics Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen and Ivalu Kristine Lidsmoes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
How Danish were the Danish West Indies? Language use in written sources in a multilingual colonial society Karoline Kühl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Part IV: Fresh Data
Stadt der Kolonien – Street names in colonial contexts with particular consideration of the Hanseatic City of Bremen Anna Wolter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Index of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Index of Languages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Index of Subjects and Toponyms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305

(Deutsch)

Language: German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Linguists, Onomasticians, Cultural Anthropologists, Cultural Historians
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 306
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 15
- Coloured Illustrations: 5
- Tables: 10
Keywords: Colonial Linguistics; Colonial Toponomastics; Postcolonial Studies

eBook

Published: September 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110712452

Hardcover

Published: September 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110712377