Français tirailleur

Not just a “language of power”

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9367166
AutoresMikael Parkvall (0000-0002-0840-1357, Stockholm University, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume2
Fascículo1-2
Páginas60-76
Data de publicação2018-11-09
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLanguage & ecology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1745-3631 • E-ISSN: 2452-1949
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/le.18009.par
OpenAlexW2899781823
IdiomaFR
Referências citadas16

Français-Tirailleur is the conventional name for the French-lexicon pidgin used in France’s African army during the 19th and 20th centuries. Tirailleur literally translates as ‘rifleman’ or ‘sharpshooter’, but in time, and in practice, it came to refer specifically to indigenous colonial soldiers. The literature on the variety is anything but vast, but some publications are partly or entirely devoted it, almost invariably drawing on one and the same source (an anonymously authored phrasebook intended for use by French officers commanding African soldiers; Anon. 1916 ). Another thing most of them have in common is that they see the language as an instrument of oppression, and as we shall see, quite a few claim that the pidgin was even invented for this specific purpose

Archaeology · Colonialism · Creole language · Indigenous · Lexicon · Linguistics · Oppression · Pidgin · Political science · Variety (cybernetics · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Computer Science · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence