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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:50:38
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Missionary Linguistics VI: Zwartjes, De Troia (eds.)

 


Title: Missionary Linguistics VI 
Subtitle: Missionary Linguistics in Asia. Selected papers from the Tenth
International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Rome, 21–24 March 2018 
Series Title: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 130  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/sihols.130 


Editor: Otto Zwartjes
Editor: Paolo De Troia

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258434 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258434 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258434 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210043 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210043 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210043 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 111.30


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Translation
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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