Missionary Linguistics In East Asia

Author : Sandra Breitenbach
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : China
ISBN : 3631504411

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Missionary Linguistics in East Asia by Sandra Breitenbach Pdf

This book examines the language studies of Western missionaries in China and beyond. The goal of this study is to examine the purpose, methods, context, and influence of missionary language studies. The book reveals new insights into the hitherto less well-known and unstudied origins of language thinking. These publically unknown sources virtually form our «hidden history of language». Some key 17th century and pre-17th century descriptions of language not only pass on our Greco-Latin «grammatical» heritage internationally for about two millennia. They also reveal grammar, speaking, and language as an esoteric knowledge. Our modern life has been formed and influenced through both esoteric and common connotations in language. It is precisely the techniques, allusions, and intentions of language making revealed in rare, coded texts which have influenced our modern identities. These extraordinary and highly controversial interpretations of both language and Christianity reveal that our modern identities have been largely shaped in the absence of public knowledge and discussion.

Author : Jieun Kiaer,Alessandro Bianchi,Giulia Falato,Pia Jolliffe,Kazue Mino,Kyungmin Yu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000473193

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Missionary Translators by Jieun Kiaer,Alessandro Bianchi,Giulia Falato,Pia Jolliffe,Kazue Mino,Kyungmin Yu Pdf

Exploring the history of missionary translation of Christian texts in East Asia, Missionary Translators offers a comparative perspective between the features of East Asian languages and the historical context of the translation. Focusing on the Bible and Christian theological works, it looks at the intersection of linguistics, translation studies and history. This book discusses the real-life challenges faced by missionary translators in producing Christian texts in East Asian languages. Students, historians, scholars and those interested in the study of East Asian cultures or translation will find this book to be an insightful and invaluable resource.

Author : Otto Zwartjes,Paolo De Troia
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258434

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Missionary Linguistics VI by Otto Zwartjes,Paolo De Troia Pdf

This is the sixth volume to be dedicated to the pioneering linguistic work produced by missionaries in Asia. This volume presents research into the documentation, study and description of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Tamil. It provides a selection of papers which primarily concentrate on the Society of Jesus and their linguistic production, but also covers linguistic works written by Franciscans, the Order of Discalced Carmelites and works of other religious institutions, such as the Propaganda Fide and the Missions Étrangères de Paris. New insights are provided regarding these works and their reception among European scholars interested in these ‘exotic’ languages and cultures. Each text is placed in its historical context and various approaches to some of the most important descriptive problems faced by these linguists avant la lettre are analyzed, such as the establishment of an adequate romanization system, the description of typological features of these Asian languages, such as tonality and aspiration in Chinese and Vietnamese, agglutination and derivational morphology in Japanese and Tamil, and, pragmatics, in particular politeness in Japanese. This volume not only looks at methodology and descriptive techniques, but also comments on missionary linguistic policies in Asia and offers articles of interest to historiographers of linguistics, historians, typologists, descriptive linguists and those interested in translation studies.

Author : Otto Zwartjes,Klaus Zimmermann,Martina Schrader-Kniffki
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027270580

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Missionary Linguistics V / Lingüística Misionera V by Otto Zwartjes,Klaus Zimmermann,Martina Schrader-Kniffki Pdf

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.

Author : T. E. McAuley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136844614

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Language Change in East Asia by T. E. McAuley Pdf

This book adopts a wide focus on the range of East Asian languages, in both their pre-modern and modern forms, within the specific topic area of language change. It contains sections on dialect studies, contact linguistics, socio-linguistics and syntax/phonology and deals with all three major languages of East Asia: Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Individual chapters cover pre-Sino-Japanese phonology, nominalizers in Chinese, Japanese and Korean; Japanese loanwords in Taiwan Mandarin; changes in Korean honorifics; the tense and aspect system of Japanese; and language policy in Japan. The book will be of interest to linguists working on East Asian languages, and will be of value to a range of general linguists working in comparative or historical linguistics, socio-linguistics, language typology and language contact.

Author : Paweł Kida
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1032679662

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Missionary Grammars and the Language of Translation in Korea (1876-1910) by Paweł Kida Pdf

"Missionary Grammars and the Language of Translation in Korea 1876-1910 embraces the Enlightenment period in Korea (1876-1910) after the opening of the so-called 'Hermit Nation' in describing the Korean language and missionary works. This book includes a comprehensive analysis and description of works published at that time by John Ross (1877, 1882), Felix-Clair Ridel (1881), James Scott (1887, 1893), Camille Imbault-Huart (1893), Horace Grant Underwood (1890, 1914), James Scrath Gale (1894, 1903), and Annie Laurie Baird (1911) with the particular focus on missionary activities, linguistic practices, grammatical content, and the language of translation from Korean into a native language. The topic of missionary grammar was raised by Otto Zwartjes (2012, 2018) with a focus on South America, North America, and Portuguese missions in Asia and Africa. Still, so far, Korea was not mentioned, and there has been missing content about missionary grammar in Korea. A necessary study has been made within the framework of AMG (Average Missionary Grammar). The author has concluded that missionary works played an essential work in the formation of further linguistic research in Korea. The Greek-Latin approach applied by Western missionaries to the language is still relevant in the grammatical description of the Korean language. This book will primarily appeal to Korean language educators, researchers, and historical linguists. Postgraduates interested in missionary grammar will also benefit from the content of this volume"--

Author : Otto Zwartjes,Gregory James,Emilio Ridruejo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027291738

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Missionary Linguistics III / Lingüística misionera III by Otto Zwartjes,Gregory James,Emilio Ridruejo Pdf

This third volume on Missionary Linguistics focuses on morphology and syntax. It contains a selection of papers derived from the international conferences on missionary linguistics held in Hong Kong/Macau and Valladolid. As with the previous two volumes (2004, on general issues, and 2005, on orthography and phonology), this volume looks at methodology and descriptive techniques from a historical point of view, offering articles of interest to historiographers of linguistics, typologists, and descriptive linguists. It presents research into languages such as Tarasco (Pur’épecha), Massachusett, Nahuatl, Conivo, Sipibo, Guaraní, Vietnamese, Tamil, Southern Min Chinese dialects, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, Tagalog and other Austronesian languages, such as Yapese and Chamorro.

Author : Otto Zwartjes,Even Hovdhaugen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027285416

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Missionary Linguistics/Lingüística misionera by Otto Zwartjes,Even Hovdhaugen Pdf

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).

Author : Patricia Herbert,Anthony Crothers Milner
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0824812670

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South-East Asia by Patricia Herbert,Anthony Crothers Milner Pdf

Author : Klaus Zimmermann,Birte Kellermeier-Rehbein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110403169

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Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics by Klaus Zimmermann,Birte Kellermeier-Rehbein Pdf

A lot of what we know about “exotic languages” is owed to the linguistic activities of missionaries. They had the languages put into writing, described their grammar and lexicon, and worked towards a standardization, which often came with Eurocentric manipulation. Colonial missionary work as intellectual (religious) conquest formed part of the Europeans' political colonial rule, although it sometimes went against the specific objectives of the official administration. In most cases, it did not help to stop (or even reinforced) the displacement and discrimination of those languages, despite oftentimes providing their very first (sometimes remarkable, sometimes incorrect) descriptions. This volume presents exemplary studies on Catholic and Protestant missionary linguistics, in the framework of the respective colonial situation and policies under Spanish, German, or British rule. The contributions cover colonial contexts in Latin America, Africa, and Asia across the centuries. They demonstrate how missionaries dealing with linguistic analyses and descriptions cooperated with colonial institutions and how their linguistic knowledge contributed to European domination.

Author : Marcus Tomalin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027246073

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And He Knew Our Language by Marcus Tomalin Pdf

This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible for introducing many innovative and insightful grammatical analyses. Rather than merely adopting Graeco-Roman models, they drew extensively upon studies of non-European languages, and a careful exploration of their scripture translations reveal the origins of the Haida sociolect that emerged as a result of the missionary activity. The complex interactions between the missionaries and anthropologists are also discussed, and it is shown that the former sometimes anticipated linguistic analyses that are now incorrectly attributed to the latter. Since this book draws upon recent work in theoretical linguistics, religious history, translation studies, and anthropology, it emphasises the unavoidably interdisciplinary nature of Missionary Linguistics research.

Author : Scott N. Callaham,Will Brooks
Publisher : Lexham Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781683593041

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World Mission by Scott N. Callaham,Will Brooks Pdf

World missions needs a fully biblical ethos. This is the contention of the editors of and contributors to World Mission, a series of essays aimed at reforming popular approaches to missions. In the first set of essays, contributors develop a biblical theology of world missions from both the Old and New Testaments, arguing that the theology of each must stand in the foreground of missions, not recede into the background. In the second, they unfold the Great Commission in sequence, detailing how it determines the biblical strategy of all mission enterprises. Finally, they treat current issues in world missions from the perspective of the sufficiency of Scripture. Altogether, this book aims to reform missions to be thoroughlyâ€"not just foundationallyâ€"biblical, a needed correction even among the sincerest missionaries.

Author : Paweł Kida
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781003858430

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Missionary Grammars and the Language of Translation in Korea (1876–1910) by Paweł Kida Pdf

Missionary Grammars and the Language of Translation in Korea (1876−1910) embraces the Enlightenment period in Korea (1876−1910) after the opening of the so-called Hermit Nation in describing the Korean language and missionary works. This book includes a comprehensive analysis and description of works published at that time by John Ross (1877, 1882), Felix-Clair Ridel (1881), James Scott (1887, 1893), Camille Imbault-Huart (1893), Horace Grant Underwood (1890, 1914), James Scrath Gale (1894, 1903), and Annie Laurie Baird (1911) with the particular focus on missionary activities, linguistic practices, grammatical content, and the language of translation from Korean into a native language. The topic of missionary grammar was raised by Otto Zwartjes (2012, 2018) with a focus on South America, North America, and Portuguese missions in Asia and Africa. Still, so far, Korea had not been mentioned, and there has been missing content about missionary grammar in Korea. A necessary study has been made within the framework of AMG (Average Missionary Grammar). The author has concluded that missionary works played an essential role in the formation of further linguistic research in Korea. The Greek-Latin approach applied by Western missionaries to the language is still relevant in the grammatical description of the Korean language. This book will primarily appeal to Korean language educators, researchers, and historical linguists. Postgraduates interested in missionary grammar will also benefit from the content of this volume.

Author : Chao Yuen Ren,Richard B. Noss,Joseph. K. Yamagiwa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110814637

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Linguistics in East Asia and South East Asia by Chao Yuen Ren,Richard B. Noss,Joseph. K. Yamagiwa Pdf

To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.

Author : Weiying Gu
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9058671615

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Missionary Approaches and Linguistics in Mainland China and Taiwan by Weiying Gu Pdf

This book offers a series of attempts at analyzing the place of Christianity in traditional Chinese society from the different sociological, historical, theological and philological approaches. It is based on papers and discussions from the sixth international conference on Church activities in Qing and early Republican China (Verbiest Foundation, Leuven, 1998). Scholars like von Collani, Criveller, Walravens and Wiest established already a well-deserved reputation with a series of previous publications in the field. Their articles in this volume on the position of women in the Chinese Catholic community, the shifting Jesuit methodology, Jesuit apologetics and the direct sources of the Qiqi tushou are fine examples of fundamental research. Equally interesting are the papers of the scholars Heuschert-Laage, Kollmar-Paulenz, Pang and Stary. They throw an interesting light on the Manchu-Mongolian aspect of the history of the Chinese Catholic Church. Special attention must also be given to the studies on Taiwan by Borao, Heylen and Heyns. Taiwan is a region relatively unknown to the Western sinological public. From the Church historian's point of view however it is a highly interesting place because it was the first place in the Chines world where Protestantism and Catholicism coexisted. The historical framework of the studies in this volume is mainly the seventeenth century. Although this volume is not a comprehensive treatment of the Christian mission in Ming and Qing China, it brings together studies that illuminate the manner in which the Christian missionaries--Protestants and Catholics alike--developed different methods to realize their communal ideal of "the Kingdom of God on Earth".