TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - Stolberg, Doris
ED  - Weber, Brigitte
T1  - Positioning by naming: Constructing group affiliation in a colonial setting
T2  - The Linguistic Heritage of Colonial Practice
N2  - Defining groups and affiliating the self and the other with specific social categories is an important part of constructing a colonial conceptualization of societies. Many written documents from the colonial period attest to this practice. The current paper focuses on missionaries’ ways of positioning themselves and others within the colonial context. The German speaking Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft (RMG, Rhenish Mission Society) established mission stations in the Astrolabe Bay area of New Guinea, an area that was under German domination between 1884 and 1914. The paper analyzes how RMG missionaries, by means of language, construct, define, and position different population groups, and it investigates what patterns emerge from these language practices.
T3  - Koloniale und postkoloniale Linguistik - 13 
KW  - Kolonialismus
KW  - Stereotypisierung
KW  - Rheinische Missions-Gesellschaft
KW  - colonial group construction
KW  - positioning of self and other
KW  - genericity
KW  - stereotyping
KW  - mission societies
KW  - Papua-Neuguinea
KW  - Deutsch
Y1  - 2019
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-84357
SN  - 978-3-11-062005-4
SB  - 978-3-11-062005-4
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623710-006
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623710-006
SP  - 115
EP  - 138
PB  - de Gruyter
CY  - Berlin [u.a.]
ER  -