Portuguese Missionary Grammars In Asia Africa And Brazil 1550 1800

Author : Otto Zwartjes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027283252

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Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800 by Otto Zwartjes Pdf

From the 16th century onwards, Europeans encountered languages in the Americas, Africa, and Asia which were radically different from any of the languages of the Old World. Missionaries were in the forefront of this encounter: in order to speak to potential converts, they needed to learn local languages. A great wealth of missionary grammars survives from the 16th century onwards. Some of these are precious records of the languages they document, and all of them witness their authors’ attempts to develop the methods of grammatical description with which they were familiar, to accommodate dramatically new linguistic features.This book is the first monograph covering the whole Portuguese grammatical tradition outside Portugal. Its aim is to provide an integrated description, analysis and evaluation of the missionary grammars which were written in Portuguese. Between them, these grammars covered a huge range of languages: in Asia, Tamil, four Indo-Aryan languages and Japanese; in Brazil, Kipeá and Tupinambá; in Africa and the African diaspora, Kimbundu and Sena (from the modern Angola and Mozambique respectively).Each text is placed in its historical context, and its linguistic context is analyzed, with particular attention to orthography, the parts of speech system, morphology and syntax. Whenever possible, pedagogical features of the grammars are discussed, together with their treatment of language variation and pragmatics, and the evidence they provide for the missionaries’ attitude towards the languages they studied.

Author : Otto Zwartjes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027246080

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Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800 by Otto Zwartjes Pdf

From the 16th century onwards, Europeans encountered languages in the Americas, Africa, and Asia which were radically different from any of the languages of the Old World. Missionaries were in the forefront of this encounter: in order to speak to potential converts, they needed to learn local languages. A great wealth of missionary grammars survives from the 16th century onwards. Some of these are precious records of the languages they document, and all of them witness their authors' attempts to develop the methods of grammatical description with which they were familiar, to accommodate dramatically new linguistic features.This book is the first monograph covering the whole Portuguese grammatical tradition outside Portugal. Its aim is to provide an integrated description, analysis and evaluation of the missionary grammars which were written in Portuguese. Between them, these grammars covered a huge range of languages: in Asia, Tamil, four Indo-Aryan languages and Japanese; in Brazil, Kipeá and Tupinambá; in Africa and the African diaspora, Kimbundu and Sena (from the modern Angola and Mozambique respectively).Each text is placed in its historical context, and its linguistic context is analyzed, with particular attention to orthography, the parts of speech system, morphology and syntax. Whenever possible, pedagogical features of the grammars are discussed, together with their treatment of language variation and pragmatics, and the evidence they provide for the missionaries' attitude towards the languages they studied.

Author : Delfim Correia da Silva,Robert Samuel Newman
Publisher : Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789892622941

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Traces on The Sea: Portuguese Interaction With Asia by Delfim Correia da Silva,Robert Samuel Newman Pdf

A closely-argued collection of articles by five respected Portuguese professors on various aspects of the long relationship between Portugal and its former colonies in Asia, TRACES ON THE SEA presents material on history, linguistics, architecture, and ethnomusicology focusing on Goa and elsewhere in Asia touched by Portuguese culture over the centuries. The book provides a background to the academic study of Goa and also as a site stimulating ideas for future research.

Author : Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya,Beheroze Shroff
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527594388

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Legacies of Trade and Empire by Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya,Beheroze Shroff Pdf

This book problematises established histories of slavery and indentured labour, as carried out through European empires, to interpret the impact of trade, particularly in the region surrounding the Indian Ocean. The discourse within these chapters explores the aesthetics of silence, poetics of relation, creolisation, agency and assertion of identities, musical practices, cuisine, knowledge transfers, decolonisation, and afterlives of empire. These critical analyses draw from Africa, India, Indonesia, Seychelles, Sri Lanka and Suriname as their case studies. This book breaks the silence on several legacies of empire, looking through the prisms of history, politics, economics, sociology, linguistics, literature, anthropology and ethnomusicology, all the while employing a range of concepts. The authors of these chapters search through the annals of history for ways of living harmoniously in an increasingly globalised world.

Author : Otto Zwartjes,Paolo De Troia
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Paweł Kida
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004228047

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Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic by Anonim Pdf

In recent scholarship, the connection between Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic is studied in a more systematic way. The idea of studying these two varieties in one theoretical frame is quite new, and was initiated at the conferences of the International Association for the Study of Middle and Mixed Arabic (AIMA). At these conferences, the members of AIMA discuss the latest insights into the definition, terminology, and research methods of Middle and Mixed Arabic. Results of various discussions in this field are to be found in the present book, which contains articles describing and analysing the linguistic features of Muslim, Jewish and Christian Arabic texts (folklore, religious and linguistic literature) as well as the matters of mixed language and diglossia. Contributors include: Berend Jan Dikken, Lutz Edzard, Jacques Grand’Henry, Bruno Halflants, Benjamin Hary, Rachel Hasson Kenat, Johannes den Heijer, Amr Helmy Ibrahim, Paolo La Spisa, Jérôme Lentin, Gunvor Mejdell, Arie Schippers, Yosef Tobi, Kees de Vreugd, Manfred Woidich, and Otto Zwartjes.

Author : H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108417976

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A History of African Linguistics by H. Ekkehard Wolff Pdf

The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.

Author : Ines G. Zupanov
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190639655

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The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits by Ines G. Zupanov Pdf

Through its missionary, pedagogical, and scientific accomplishments, the Society of Jesus-known as the Jesuits-became one of the first institutions with a truly "global" reach, in practice and intention. The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits offers a critical assessment of the Order, helping to chart new directions for research at a time when there is renewed interest in Jesuit studies. In particular, the Handbook examines their resilient dynamism and innovative spirit, grounded in Catholic theology and Christian spirituality, but also profoundly rooted in society and cultural institutions. It also explores Jesuit contributions to education, the arts, politics, and theology, among others. The volume is organized in seven major sections, totaling forty articles, on the Order's foundation and administration, the theological underpinnings of its activities, the Jesuit involvement with secular culture, missiology, the Order's contributions to the arts and sciences, the suppression the Order endured in the 18th century, and finally, the restoration. The volume also looks at the way the Jesuit Order is changing, including becoming more non-European and ethnically diverse, with its members increasingly interested in engaging society in addition to traditional pastoral duties.

Author : Otto Zwartjes,Klaus Zimmermann,Martina Schrader-Kniffki
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Carla Nappi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198866398

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Translating Early Modern China by Carla Nappi Pdf

The history of China, as any history, is a story of and in translation. Translating Early Modern China tells the story of translation in China to and from non-European languages and Latin between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries, and primarily in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Each chapter finds a particular translator resurrected from the past to tell the story of a text that helped shape the history of translation in China. In Chinese, Mongolian, Manchu, Latin, and more, these texts helped to make the Chinese language what it was at different points in its history. This volume explores what the form of an academic history book might look like by playing with fictioning as part of the historian's craft. The book's many stories--of glossaries and official Ming translation bureaus, of bilingual Ming Chinese-Mongolian language primers, of the first Latin grammar of Manchu, of a Qing Manchu conversation manual, of a collection of Manchu poems by a Qing translator--serve as case studies that open out into questions of language and translation in China's past, of the use of fiction as a historian's tool, and of the ways that translation creates language.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : India
ISBN : UCAL:$B172577

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Portuguese Discoveries, Dependencies and Missions in Asia and Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rodrigo Cacho Casal,Caroline Egan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 843 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351108690

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The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture by Rodrigo Cacho Casal,Caroline Egan Pdf

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture introduces the intellectual and artistic breadth of early modern Spain from a range of disciplinary and critical perspectives. Spanning the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (a period traditionally known as the Golden Age), the volume examines topics including political and scientific culture, literary and artistic innovations, and religious and social identities and institutions in transformation. The 36 chapters of the volume include both expert overviews of key topics and figures from the period as well as new approaches to understudied questions and materials. This invaluable resource will be of interest to advanced students and scholars in Hispanic studies, as well as Renaissance and early modern studies more generally.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004427006

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Missionary Linguistic Studies from Mesoamerica to Patagonia by Anonim Pdf

This volume presents the results of in-depth studies of grammars, vocabularies, and religious texts, dating from the sixteenth – nineteenth century. The researches involve twenty indigenous Mesoamerican and South American languages, including: Nahuatl (Mexico), Pukina (Peru); Tehuelche (Patagonia).

Author : A. J. R. Russell-Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Africa
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173000385646

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A World on the Move by A. J. R. Russell-Wood Pdf