Missionary Linguistics V / Lingüística Misionera V

Translation theories and practices

Selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Bremen, 28 February - 2 March 2012

Editors

Otto Zwartjes | University of Amsterdam

Klaus Zimmermann | University of Bremen

Martina Schrader-Kniffki | University of Mainz

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The object of this volume is the study of missionary translation practices which occur within a colonial context of political domination and spiritual conquest. Missionary translation becomes especially manifest in bilingual ethnographic descriptions, in (bilingual) catechisms and in the missionaries’ lexicographic condensation of bilingual dictionaries. The study of these instances permits the analysis and interpretation of their guiding principles, their translation practice and underlying reasoning. It also permits the modern linguist to discern semantic changes that can be revealed in these missionary translations over certain periods.
Up to now there has hardly been any study available that focuses on translation in missionary sources, of the different traditions in the Americas or Asia. This book will fill this gap, addressing the legacy of missionary translation practices and theories, the role of translation in evangelization and its particular form in the context of colonialism, the creation of loans from Spanish or Latin or equivalents or paraphrases in the indigenous languages in texts and dictionaries as translation strategies followed in bilingual editions. The process of acculturation and transculturation imposed by European religious systems is noted. This volume presents research on languages such as Nahuatl, Tarascan (Pur’épecha), Zapotec, Tamil, Chinese, Japanese, Pangasinán, and other Austronesian languages from the Philippines.

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 122] 2014. xii, 350 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.122

Table of Contents

Foreword & Acknowledgements | pp. vii–xii

The Missionaries’ Contribution to Translation Studies in the Spanish Colonial Period: The mise en page of translated texts and its functions in foreign language teaching

Otto Zwartjes | pp. 1–50

Translation Purposes, Target Audiences, and Strategies in Sahagún’s Libro de la Rethorica (c.1577)

Victoria Ríos Castaño | pp. 53–84

Translation for Colonization and Christianization: The practice of the bilingual edition of Bernardino de Sahagún (1499–1590)

Klaus Zimmermann | pp. 85–112

1.2 Tarascan

Remodeling the Tarascan Religious World: 16th-century translations and its survival into the 21st century

Cristina Monzón | pp. 113–130

Formas de percibir y nombrar Nuevas realidades: El Dictionarito en lengua de michuacan (1574) de Juan Baptista de Lagunas

Frida Villavicencio Zarza | pp. 131–160

1.3 Zapotec

Sins and Crimes: Zapotec-Spanish translation in Catholic evangelization and colonial law in Oaxaca, New Spain

Martina Schrader-Kniffki and Yanna Yannakakis | pp. 161–200

Shaping Minds and Cultures: The impact of missionary translations in Southern India

Cristina Muru | pp. 203–230

2.2 Chinese

Translation in Chinese Grammars: Bilingual works by Western missionaries, diplomats and academics in the 18th and 19th centuries

Mariarosaria Gianninoto | pp. 231–250

2.3 Japanese

Translation of Anatomic terms in two Jesuit Dictionaries of Japanese

Emi Fukuda Kishimoto | pp. 251–272

2.4 Philippine languages

Traducción de términos religiosos en los vocabularios filipinos (1565–1800)

Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez | pp. 273–294

Algo más que construyendo identidades: Fray Andrés López (1690) y la traducción en la lingüística misionero-colonial Filipina

Joaquín Sueiro Justel | pp. 295–336

Addresses of contributors/Direcciones de los autores | pp. 337–338

Index of biographical names/Índice de nombres biográficos | pp. 339–342

Index of subjects & terms / Índice de tópicos y términos lingüísticos | pp. 343–350

“Students of and researchers in Bible translation, linguistics and general translation studies would find this book valuable. It contains mostly solid historical and linguistic research, though limited, due to its intent, to a linguistic perspective. Scholars in general translation studies would probably find the linguistic perspective too narrow, but rather than criticising the selection of writings in this regard, we suggest that scholars with an interest in the socio-political or development perspective in translation studies will be able to find enough research here to interest them in pursuing more social interests in translation practices during the times and in the spaces covered in this book.”

Kobus Marais and Caroline Mangerel, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, in Target Vol. 28:3 (2016)

“El volumen es, sin duda, un paso más, y muy relevante, en el conocimiento de la praxis traductora de los lingüistas misioneros católicos en América y Asia desde el siglo XVI hasta el siglo XIX.”

Joaquín García-Medall, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain, in Meta - journal des traducteurs, Vol.61, No 2, 2016

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Subjects

Linguistics

History of linguistics

Translation & Interpreting Studies

Translation Studies

Main BIC Subject

CFA: Philosophy of language

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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