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Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America / Salikoko S. Mufwene.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indigenous peoples--Latin America--Language--History.
- Languages in contact--Latin America.
- Latin America--Colonial influence.
- Spanish language--Latin America--History. Portuguese language--Latin America--History.
- Spanish language--Latin America--Influence on foreign languages.
- Indigenous peoples--History--Language--Latin America.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Spanish language--Influence on foreign languages--Latin America.
- Spanish language.
- Portuguese language--Influence on foreign languages--Latin America.
- Portuguese language.
- Spanish language--Latin America--History.
- Portuguese language--History--Latin America.
- Languages in contact.
- Latin America.
- Local Subjects:
- Indigenous peoples--Latin America--Language--History.
- Languages in contact--Latin America.
- Latin America--Colonial influence.
- Spanish language--Latin America--History. Portuguese language--Latin America--History.
- Spanish language--Latin America--Influence on foreign languages.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As rich as the development of the Spanish and Portuguese languages has been in Latin America, no single book has attempted to chart their complex history. Gathering essays by sociohistorical linguists working across the region, Salikoko S. Mufwene does just that in this book. Exploring the many different contact points between Iberian colonialism and indigenous cultures, the contributors identify the crucial parameters of language evolution that have led to today's state of linguistic diversity in Latin America. The essays approach language development through an ecological lens, exploring the effects of politics, economics, cultural contact, and natural resources on the indigenization of Spanish and Portuguese in a variety of local settings. They show how languages adapt to new environments, peoples, and practices, and the ramifications of this for the spread of colonial languages, the loss or survival of indigenous ones, and the way hybrid vernaculars get situated in larger political and cultural forces. The result is a sophisticated look at language as a natural phenomenon, one that meets a host of influences with remarkable plasticity.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Latin America: A Linguistic Curiosity from the Point of View of Colonization and the Ensuing Language Contacts
- 2. The Many Facets of Spanish Dialect Diversification in Latin America
- 3. Amerindian Language Islands in Brazil
- 4. Historical Development of Nheengatu (Língua Geral Amazônica)
- 5. Language and Conquest: Tupi-Guarani Expansion in the European Colonization of Brazil and Amazonia
- 6. African Descendants' Rural Vernacular Portuguese and Its Contribution to Understanding the Development of Brazilian Portuguese
- 7. Brazilian Portuguese and the Ecology of (Post-)Colonial Brazil
- 8. Maya and Spanish in Yucatán: An Example of Continuity and Change
- 9. Standard Colonial Quechua
- 10. Linguistic Subjectivity in Ecologies of Amazonian Language Change
- 11. The Ecology of Language Evolution in Latin America: A Haitian Postscript toward a Postcolonial Sequel
- Contributors
- Subject Index
- Author Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780226125671
- 022612567X
- OCLC:
- 877868012
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