"And he knew our language" : Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast
This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book Chapter |
| Published: |
John Benjamins Publishing Company
2011
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Get Fullteks DOAB: description of the publication |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| LEADER | 02055naaaa2200289uu 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | doab_20_500_12854_32005 | ||
| 020 | |a sihols.116 | ||
| 020 | |a 9789027286833 | ||
| 024 | 7 | |a 10.1075/sihols.116 |c doi | |
| 041 | 0 | |a English | |
| 042 | |a dc | ||
| 072 | 7 | |a CFA |2 bicssc | |
| 100 | 1 | |a Tomalin, Marcus |4 auth | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a "And he knew our language" : Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast |
| 260 | |b John Benjamins Publishing Company |c 2011 | ||
| 506 | 0 | |a Open Access |2 star |f Unrestricted online access | |
| 520 | |a This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible for introducing many innovative and insightful grammatical analyses. Rather than merely adopting Graeco-Roman models, they drew extensively upon studies of non-European languages, and a careful exploration of their scripture translations reveal the origins of the Haida sociolect that emerged as a result of the missionary activity. The complex interactions between the missionaries and anthropologists are also discussed, and it is shown that the former sometimes anticipated linguistic analyses that are now incorrectly attributed to the latter. | ||
| 536 | |a Knowledge Unlatched | ||
| 540 | |a Creative Commons |f https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |2 cc |4 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode | ||
| 546 | |a English | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Philosophy of language |2 bicssc | |
| 653 | |a Linguistics | ||
| 653 | |a History of Linguistics | ||
| 653 | |a Missionary Linguistics | ||
| 653 | |a Anthropology | ||
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |a www.oapen.org |u https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45300/1/1004094.pdf |7 0 |z Get Fullteks |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |a www.oapen.org |u https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32005 |7 0 |z DOAB: description of the publication |