The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800

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Titel: The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800

Enthält: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I TERMS OF CONTACT -- 1. Babel of Tongues: Communicating with the Indians in Eastern North America -- 2. The Use of Pidgins and Jargons on the East Coast of 61 North America -- PART II SIGNS AND SYMBOLS -- 3. Pictures, Gestures, Hieroglyphs: “Mute Eloquence” in Sixteenth-Century Mexico -- 4. Iconic Discourse: The Language of Images in Seventeenth-Century New France -- 5. Mapping after the Letter: Graphology and Indigenous Cartography in New Spain -- PART III THE LITERATE AND THE NONLITERATE -- 6. Continuity vs. Acculturation: Aztec and Inca Cases of Alphabetic Literacy -- 7. Native Languages as Spoken and Written: Views from Southern New England -- 8. The Mi’kmaq Hieroglyphic Prayer Book: Writing and Christianity in Maritime Canada, 1675–1921 -- PART IV INTERMEDIARIES -- 9. Interpreters Snatched from the Shore: The Successful and the Others -- 10. Mohawk Schoolmasters and Catechists in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Iroquoia: An Experiment in Fostering Literacy and Religious Change -- 11. The Making of Logan, the Mingo Orator -- PART V THEORY -- 12. Spanish Colonization and the Indigenous Languages of America -- 13. Descriptions of American Indian Word Forms in Colonial Missionary Grammars -- 14. “Savage” Languages in Eighteenth-Century Theoretical History of Language -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

Beteiligte: Axtell, James [Mitwirkende:r]; Bragdon, Kathleen J. [Mitwirkende:r]; Fiering, Norman [Mitwirkende:r]; Fiering, Norman [Herausgeber:in]; Goddard, Ives [Mitwirkende:r]; Gray, Edward G. [Mitwirkende:r]; Gray, Edward G. [Herausgeber:in]; Greenfield, Bruce [Mitwirkende:r]; Hart, William B. [Mitwirkende:r]; Jooken, Lieve [Mitwirkende:r]; Karttune, Frances [Mitwirkende:r]; Leahey, Margaret J. [Mitwirkende:r]; Leibsohn, Dana [Mitwirkende:r]; Lerner, Isaías [Mitwirkende:r]; Mazzotti, José Antonio [Mitwirkende:r]; Schreyer, Rüdiger [Mitwirkende:r]; Watts, Pauline Moffitt [Mitwirkende:r]

Erschienen: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2000]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (352 p.)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781800735170

ISBN: 9781800735170

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Schlagwörter: Europeans Cultural assimilation ; Indians of North America Cultural assimilation ; Indians of North America Languages ; Indians of South America Cultural assimilation ; Indians of South America Languages ; Languages in contact America History Congresses ; Sociolinguistics North America ; Sociolinguistics South America ; HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)

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Beschreibung: When Columbus arrived in the Americas there were, it is believed, as many as 2,000 distinct, mutually unintelligible tongues spoken in the western hemisphere, encompassing the entire area from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. This astonishing fact has generally escaped the attention of historians, in part because many of these indigenous languages have since become extinct. And yet the burden of overcoming America's language barriers was perhaps the one problem faced by all peoples of the New World in the early modern era: African slaves and Native Americans in the Lower Mississippi Valley; Jesuit missionaries and Huron-speaking peoples in New France; Spanish conquistadors and the Aztec rulers. All of these groups confronted America's complex linguistic environment, and all of them had to devise ways of transcending that environment - a problem that arose often with life or death implications. For the first time, historians, anthropologists, literature specialists, and linguists have come together to reflect, in the fifteen original essays presented in this volume, on the various modes of contact and communication that took place between the Europeans and the "Natives." A particularly important aspect of this fascinating collection is the way it demonstrates the interactive nature of the encounter and how Native peoples found ways to shape and adapt imported systems of spoken and written communication to their own spiritual and material needs

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