Tag: Portuguese

January 5, 2024

Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola Migrants or Masters (2024)

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Free Download Lisa Åkesson, "Postcolonial Portuguese Migration to Angola: Migrants or Masters?"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3319730517, 3030103064 | PDF | pages: 163 | 2.0 mb
Grounded in extensive and original ethnographic fieldwork, this book makes a novel contribution to migration studies by examining a European labour migration to the Global South, namely contemporary Portuguese migration to Angola in a postcolonial context. In doing so, it explores everyday encounters at work between the Portuguese migrants and their Angolan "hosts", and it analyses how the Luso-African postcolonial heritage interplays with the recent Portuguese-Angolan migration in the (re-)construction of power relations and identities. Based on ethnographic interviews, the book describes the Angolan-Portuguese relationship as characterized not only by hierarchies of power, but also by ambivalence and hybridity. This research demonstrates that the identities of the ex-colonized Angolan and the Portuguese ex-colonizer are shaped by a history of unequal and violent power relations. Further, it reveals how this history has produced a sense of intimacy between the two, and the often fraught nature of this relationship. Combining a strong connection to the field of migration studies with a postcolonial perspective, this original work will appeal to students and scholars of migration, postcolonial studies, the sociology of work and African Studies.

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January 5, 2024

Portuguese Relative Clauses in Synchrony and Diachrony

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Free Download Adriana Cardoso, "Portuguese Relative Clauses in Synchrony and Diachrony "
English | ISBN: 0198723784 | 2017 | 384 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book explores language variation and change from the perspective of generative syntax, based on a case study of relative clauses in contemporary European Portuguese and earlier stages of Portuguese. Adriana Cardoso offers a comparative account of three linguistic phenomena in the synchrony and diachrony of Portuguese-remnant-internal relativization, extraposition of restrictive relative clauses, and appositive relativization-and shows that the changes affecting these structures conspired to reduce the patterns of nominal discontinuity available in the language. Adopting a cross-linguistic perspective, she additionally shows that this series of changes transformed Portuguese from a ‘Germanic-like’ language, with a wide range of phrasal discontinuities, to a ‘non-Germanic type’, with more restricted patterns of discontinuity. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars working on Portuguese syntax, but also to Romance linguists and all those interested in historical and comparative syntax more widely.

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January 5, 2024

Noun-Based Constructions in the History of Portuguese and Spanish

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Free Download PatrÃcia Amaral, "Noun-Based Constructions in the History of Portuguese and Spanish "
English | ISBN: 0198847181 | 2022 | 208 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book explores syntactic and semantic change in three types of construction in Spanish and Portuguese: (i) complex determiner phrases with clausal adjunction (el hecho de, o facto de), (ii) complex prepositions/complementizers and complex connectives (sin embargo de/sem embargo de, so(b) pena de), and (iii) complex predicates containing light verbs (dar consejo/conselho de). While these constructions are syntactically different, they are all clause-taking complex expressions containing a noun followed by the functional preposition

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September 28, 2023

Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860-1975

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Free Download Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860-1975 by Filipa Lowndes Vicente, Afonso Dias Ramos
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 494 Pages | ISBN : 3031277945 | 52.7 MB
This edited collection presents the first critical and historical overview of photography in Portuguese colonial Africa to an English-speaking audience. Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860-1975 brings together sixteen scholars from interdisciplinary fields as varied as history, anthropology, art history, visual culture and museum studies, to consider some of the key aspects in the visual representation of the longest-lasting European colonial empire in the African continent. The chapters span over two centuries and cover five formerly colonial territories – Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe – deploying a range of methodologies to explore the multiple meanings and the contested uses of the photographic image across the realms of politics, science, culture and war. This book responds to a marked surge of international interest in the relationship between photography and colonialism, which has hitherto largely overlooked the Portuguese imperial context, by delivering the most recent scholarly findings to a broad readership.

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