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. Proceedings 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 strat egies, 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  - Pidgin-Sprachen
KW  - Kolonialismus
KW  - historische Lexikographie
Y1  - 2022
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-111421
UR  - https://euralex2022.ids-mannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Proceedings_11.07.2022.pdf
SN  - 978-3-937241-87-6
SB  - 978-3-937241-87-6
U6  - https://doi.org/10.14618/ids-pub-11142
DO  - https://doi.org/10.14618/ids-pub-11142
SP  - 87
EP  - 98
PB  - IDS-Verlag
CY  - Mannheim
ER  -