Publications

Publication details [#10689]

Fabian, Johannes. 1991. Accident and method in the study of intercultural communication: Colonial description of Swahili in the former Belgian Congo. In Blommaert, Jan, ed. The pragmatics of intercultural and international communication: Selected papers of the International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, August 17-22, 1987, vol.3, and the Ghent Symposium on Intercultural Communication. John Benjamins. pp. 33–50.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | crosscultural context | language politics | linguistic methodology

Language as a subject

Swahili

Annotation

F. examines language in the colonial situation, focussing on the efforts made by the colonial power to control the linguistic means of communication. He also discusses the notion of serendipity as a basic issue in the methodology of (intercultural) linguistic research.