Vergleichende Kolonialtoponomastik

Comparative colonial toponymy is a young branch of colonial linguistics and deals with all questions relating to place names in colonial contexts. Colonial place names, so-called colonial toponyms, form a globally distributed and multilingual body of data that has not yet been adequately researched. By means of selected case studies and with the aim of providing an introduction to the subject, this volume shows the importance of this field of research in current linguistics. On the one hand, comparative colonial toponymy has many interfaces with naming studies in general and expands this with a central object of global histories of interdependence; on the other hand, the research field is to be understood as an important point of reference for colonial linguistic interests, because the naming of space in processes of colonial subjugation represents a central practice of domination. The volume shows how structural, functional and discourse-oriented perspectives intertwine in order to be able to correspond in a linguistic perspective to the complex diversity of the global-colonial topon mastic...