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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. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
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.