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Missionary Linguistics V / Lingüística Misionera V
2014The 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 ...
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Missionary linguistics in the Kimberley, Western Australia
Historiographia Linguistica, 2008SummaryThis paper explores the contribution of missionary linguists to the documentation, description, and maintenance of Aboriginal languages of the Kimberley region of Western Australia from the establishment of the first enduring mission in 1890 to 1960. It is argued that the primary contribution was to language documentation.
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The Indigenous Linguistic Response to Missionary Authority in the Pacific
Australian Journal of Linguistics, 2001Views have been expressed about the structural homogenization of Pacific languages in the direction of English, and the ultimate replacement of these languages by English (Muhlhausler 1996). It has been argued that one of the primary agents of linguistic change has been the imposition of literacy by European missionaries, which has involved the ...
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Missionary Linguistics/ Lingüística misionera [I]
2004When 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 ...
Zwartjes, Otto, Hovdhaugen, Even
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Missionary Linguistics IV / Lingüística misionera IV
2009This fourth volume on Missionary Linguistics focuses on lexicography. It contains a selection of papers derived from the Fifth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics held in Mérida, Yucatán (Mexico), 14th–17th March 2007. As with the previous three volumes (2004, on general issues, 2005, on orthography and phonology, and 2007 on morphology ...
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Missions and Aboriginal difference: Judith Stokes and Australian missionary linguistics
Journal of Australian Studies, 2015Laura Rademaker
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