The series provides a platform for Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics. This new sub-discipline of linguistics is inspired by work carried out within the framework of Missionary Linguistics and by recent discussion about language, linguistics and colonialism. KPL/CPL intends to make accessible and comment on textswhich are concerned with languages of the former European possessions in overseas and were written during the European colonial era.

This work is devoted to all questions related to place names in colonial contexts. It applies a combination of structural, functional, and discourse-oriented approaches to address the complex diversity of global colonial toponomastics from a linguistic perspective. Using selected case studies, it offers an introduction to this new research field within colonial linguistics.

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Thomas Stolz und Ingo Warnke , Universität Bremen.