TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - Engelberg, Stefan
ED  - Klosa-Kückelhaus, Annette
ED  - Engelberg, Stefan
ED  - Möhrs, Christine
ED  - Storjohann, Petra
T1  - Lexicography’s entanglement with colonialism: The history of Tok Pisin lexicography as colonial history
T2  - Dictionaries and Society. Book of ­Abstracts of the XX EURALEX International Congress, 12-16 July 2022, Mannheim, Germany
N2  - Tok Pisin is a pidgin/creole language spoken since the late 19th century in most of the area that nowadays constitutes Papua New Guinea where it emerged under German colonial rule. Unusual for a pidgin/creole, Tok Pisin is characterized by a extensive lexicographic history. The Tok Pisin Dictionary Collection at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, described in this article, includes about fifty dictionaries. The collection forms the basis for the sketch of the history of Tok Pisin lexicography as part of colonial history presented here. The basic thesis is that in the history of Tok Pisin, lexicographic strategies, dictionary structures, and publication patterns reflect the interest (and disinterest) of various groups of colonial actors. Among these colonial actors, European scientists, Catholic missionaries, and the Australian and US militaries played important roles.
KW  - Pidgin
KW  - Tok Pisin
KW  - colonialism
KW  - history of lexicography
KW  - lexicography and war
KW  - missionary linguistics
KW  - colonial linguistics
KW  - Lexikografie
KW  - Kolonialismus
KW  - Neumelanesisch
KW  - Historische Sprachwissenschaft
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-111200
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-111200
UR  - https://euralex2022.ids-mannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Book_of_Abstract_11.07.2022.pdf
SN  - 978-3-937241-86-9
SB  - 978-3-937241-86-9
SP  - 46
EP  - 46
PB  - IDS-Verlag
CY  - Mannheim
ER  -