Christoph Neuenschwander

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Christoph Neuenschwander plays a role.

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Neuenschwander, Christoph 2024 Pacific transformations of the ‘Country of Babel’: The legacy of a colonial language myth in nationalist discourses on Hawai‘i Creole and Tok Pisin Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages: Online-First Articles | Article
The story of Babel has been used for centuries to prompt negative evaluations of linguistic diversity. It has been instrumentalised in debates about English, to attest linguistic purity and propagate the standard variety. In (post)colonial discourses, Babel came to project imperialist language… read more