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Les carnets d'HTL, 2021 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 ...
International Conference on Missionary Linguistics 2018 Rome +2 more
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Chinese Missionary Linguistics
, 2017 The book is a collection of essays originally presented in a 2011 workshop on Chinese missionary linguistics that was organized in Rome. Missionary linguistics examines the language tools (grammars, exercise books, vocabularies) as developed by missionaries from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century in China. The volume is divided into three sections:
Davor Antonucci +2 more
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African linguistics across the disciplines [PDF]
, 2019 Since the hiring of its first Africanist linguist Carleton Hodge in 1964, Indiana University’s Department of Linguistics has had a strong and continuing presence in the study of African languages and linguistics through the work of its faculty and of its
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, 2023 Missionary Linguistics attempts to analyze texts either written or (re)translated by missionaries, especially those produced by Spanish and Portuguese ministers in Latin America and Asia.
Martín González, Daniel +1 more
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Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2018 Spanish missionary Francisco Varo (1627-1678) is a pioneer in the history of Western and Chinese cross-cultural communication and Chinese Linguistics. His work Arte de la lengua Mandarina (Grammar of the Mandarin Language, written in 1682 and published ...
Zhi Geng 耿直
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Missionary position: The grammar of Philippine colonial sexualities as a locus of translation
TranscUlturAl, 2015 In this paper, I shall examine how Spanish missionaries during the colonial period described the sexual mores of early Filipinos in missionary grammars and vocabularies, and how such description should also be regarded as a locus of translation.
Marlon James Sales
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Missionary Linguistic Studies from Mesoamerica to Patagonia
Les carnets d'HTL, 2020 Missionary Linguistic Studies from Mesoamerica to Patagonia presents the results of in-depth studies of grammars, vocabularies and religious texts, dating from the sixteenth – nineteenth century. The researches involve twenty (extinct) indigenous Mesoamerican and South American languages: Matlatzinca, Mixtec, Nahuatl, Purépecha, Zapotec (Mexico); K ...
Alexander-Bakkerus, Astrid +3 more
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Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2016 In the middle of the XVII century the Discalced Carmelite Padre Vincenzo Maria of Saint Caterina of Siena visited India and, when he returned, drew up his travel account, titled Il Viaggio alle Indie Orientali.
Andrea Drocco
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Chinese missionary linguistics: a new field of research
, 2017 In the last four decades, much has been written about the missionary activities and the works compiled in Chinese by the many Western Christian missionaries that dwelled in China for the purpose of spreading their religious beliefs, i.e. Catholicism, Protestantism or the Orthodox faith, from the very end of the sixteenth century to late nineteenth ...
MASINI, Federico
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DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2005 Nos séculos XVI e XVII, jesuítas escreveram gramáticas de duas das línguas indígenas faladas no Brasil colonial: José de Anchieta e Luís Figueira descreveram o tupi antigo em 1595 e ca.
Ronaldo de Oliveira Batista
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