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Almeida Navarro, Eduardo de. 2001. The translation of the first texts to Tupi, the classical Indian language in Brazil. In Milton, John, ed. Emerging views on translation history in Brazil. Special issue of CROP. Revista do Curso de Língua Inglesa e Literaturas Inglesa e Norte-Americana 6: 51–73.
Publication type
Article in Special issue
Publication language
English
Keywords
culture=cultural approach | influence=impact=effect | minority language | proper name | religious translation=religious discourse=religion | semantics
Target language
Tupi -Guarani
Edition info
Translated from Portuguese by John Milton.

Abstract

This article describes the influence of Tupi Indian language on the formation of the Brazilian culture, especially on Brazilian Portuguese, Brazilian literature and the geographical names of Brazil. It also shows how the first texts in Tupi were produced, how these texts dealt with cultural diversity, allowing the Indian culture to be absorbed into the European culture, and the semantic displacements which took place.
Source : Abstract in journal