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OverviewThis book explores how the eponymous and original Lingua Franca was recognized as a potential linguistic template for future military and colonial pidgins. The author traces the career trajectory of General Louis Faidherbe, a member of the French colonizing force in Algiers in the early 1830s and a recognized linguist, who rose up through the ranks in various African colonies and was the founder of regiments in West Africa, including the Senegal-based tirailleurs. Their artificially constructed military pidgin, Français Tirailleur, was a language modelled on the reduced grammar and lexicon of Lingua Franca. This book demonstrates the direct link between the two languages, as well as connections with other colonial pidgins in Asia that also derived to some extent from Lingua Franca. It will be of interest to students and scholars of language contact and language history, pidgins and creoles, and military and colonial history. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joanna NolanPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2023 Weight: 0.284kg ISBN: 9783031305542ISBN 10: 303130554 Pages: 94 Publication Date: 04 July 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationJoanna Nolan is a research associate at SOAS in London, UK, from where she holds a PhD in Linguistics. She also holds masters’ degrees from both Oxford and Columbia Universities. She has contributed to BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking programme on the subject of Lingua Franca. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |