Missionary Linguistics/Lingüística misionera
Selected papers from the First International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Oslo, 13–16 March 2003
Editors
| University of Oslo
| University of Oslo
When the first European missionaries arrived on other continents, it was decided that the indigenous languages would be used as the means of christianization. There emerged the need to produce grammars and dictionaries of those languages. The study of this linguistic material has so far not received sufficient attention in the field of linguistic historiography. This volume is the first published collection of papers on missionary linguistics world-wide; it represents the insights of recent research, containing an introduction and papers on methodology, meta-historiography, the historical and cultural background. The book contains studies about early-modern linguistic works written in Spanish, Portuguese, English and French, describing among others indigenous languages from North America and Australia, Maya, Quechua, Xhosa, Japanese, Kapampangan, and Visaya. Topics dealt with include: innovations of individual missionaries in lexicography, grammatical analysis, phonology, morphology, or syntax; creativity in descriptive techniques; differences and/or similarities of works from different continents, and different religious backgrounds (Catholic or Protestant).
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 106] 2004. vi, 288 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Metahistoriography, methodology and general subjects/ Metahistografía, metodología y temas generales
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North America (north of Mexico) / América del norte
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Latin America/ América latina
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Africa/ África
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Asia
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Australia
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Addresses of contributors/ Direcciones de autores
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Index of Biographical Names/ Índice de autores
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Index of Grammatical (and linguistical) Terms/ Índice de términos gramaticales y lingüísticos
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“Los diferentes autores que contribuyen dos volúmenes [SiHoLS 106 & 109] muestran que la lingüística misionera no sólo es original e innovadora, sino que puede ser de utilidad para futuros estudios tipológicos y comparativos.”
Claudia Parodi, University of California, Los Angeles, in Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana, Vol. VI, N° 2 (12) - 2008
“This collection is an important contribution to the history of linguistics, especially of the Eastern Hemisphere.”
Peter T. Daniels, Jersey City, NJ., in Language volume 83:1 (2007)
“[...] es de extraordinario interés tanto para los especialistas en la historia de la lingüística aplicada como para los expertos en la evolución de las ideas lingüísticas en el enorme laboratorio humano del contraste de lenguas a largo de la historia. La tradición lingüística misionera se enfrentó, y en muchas ocasiones con notable éxito, al complejo problema de la comunicación interlingüística e intercultural. Su estudio no puede sino echar luz sobre una cuestión cada vez más presente en el mundo actual.”
Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez, in Moenia, Revista Lucense de Lingüística & Literatura, Vol. 11, 2005
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CFA – Philosophy of language
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General