TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - Stolberg, Doris
ED  - Schmidt-Brücken, Daniel
ED  - Schuster, Susanne
ED  - Stolz, Thomas
ED  - Warnke, Ingo H.
ED  - Wienberg, Marina
T1  - German in the Pacific: language policy and language planning. Governmental and mission activities in the German-colonial era (1884-1914)
T2  - Koloniallinguistik. Sprache in kolonialen Kontexten
N2  - During the second half of the 19th century, extended regions of the South Pacific came to be part of the German colonial empire. The colonial administration included repeated and diverse efforts to implement German as the official language in several settings (administration, government, education) in the colonial areas. Due to unfamiliar sociological and linguistic conditions, to competition with English as a(nother) prestigious colonizer language, and to the short time-span of the German colonial rule, these efforts rendered only little language-related effect. Nevertheless, some linguistic traces remained, and these seem to reflect in what areas language implementation was organized most thoroughly. The study combines two directions of investigation: First, taking a historical approach, legal and otherwise official documents and information are considered in order to understand how the implementation process was planned and (intended to be) carried out. Second, from a linguistic perspective, documented lexical borrowings and other traces of linguis tic contact are identified that can corroborate the historical findings by reflecting a greater effect of contact in such areas where the implementation of German was carried out most strictly. The goal of this paper is, firstly, to trace the political and missionary activities in language planning with regard to German in the colonial Pacific, rather similar to a modem language policy scenario when a new code of prestige or national unity is implemented. Secondly, these activities are evaluated in the face of the outcome that can be observed, in the historical practice as well as in long-term effects of language contact up until today.
T3  - Koloniale und postkoloniale Linguistik - 8 
KW  - language policy
KW  - language planning
KW  - German colonialism
KW  - language contact
KW  - lexical borrowing
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Sprachpolitik
KW  - Westsamoa
KW  - Sprachkontakt
KW  - Lehnwort
KW  - Kolonialismus
Y1  - 2015
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-37023
SN  - 978-3-11-042840-7
SB  - 978-3-11-042840-7
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110424799
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110424799
N1  - Dieser Band ist aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht frei zugänglich.
SP  - 317
EP  - 362
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin [u.a.]
ER  -