Language learning and teaching in missionary and colonial contexts = L'apprentissage et l'enseignement des langues en contextes missionnaire et colonial / edited by Dan Savatovsky [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Savatovsky, Dan, editor.

Series:

Languages and culture in history.

Languages and culture in history

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching--History.

Language and languages.

Missions--Linguistic work--History.

Missions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (495 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press B.V., 2023.

Language Note:

English and French.

Summary:

This volume assembles texts dedicated to the linguistic and educational aspects of missionary and colonial enterprises, taking into account all continents and with an extended diachronic perspective (fifteenth-twentieth centuries). Strictly speaking, this 'linguistics' is contemporary to the colonial era, so it is primarily the work of missionaries of Catholic orders and Protestant societies. It can also belong to a retrospective outlook, following decolonization. In the first category, one mostly finds transcription, translation, and grammatization practices (typically, the production of dictionaries and grammar books). In the second category, one finds in addition descriptions of language use, of situations of diglossia, and of contact between languages. Within this framework, the volume focuses on educational and linguistic policies, language teaching and learning, and the didactics that were associated with them.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Introduction: Language teaching and grammatization in the colonial empires

Dan Savatovsky

I Iberian Mission Lands

1 Toward a historiography of foreign language documentation, teaching and learning of non-Western languages in a missionary context (16th-18th centuries)

Otto Zwartjes

2 A contribution to the history of missionary grammars and Romance languages grammars: The commensurability of metalanguage and categories in the sixteenth century

Alejandro Díaz Villalba

II The Sinic World

3 Learning a language while making it up. Matteo Ricci's ways of inculturation and the communicative strategy of the Company of Jesus

Diego Poli

4 For an epistemological and cognitive approach to Matteo Ricci's The Palace of Memory. Didactics and imaginative processes

† Maria Lucia Aliffi and Mariangela Albano

5 The role of British missionary scholars in setting the foundations for the academic study of Chinese in British universities

Tinghe Jin and Steven Cowan

III West Africa

6 Language policy within the French colonial army: The First World War and beyond

Cécile Van Den Avenne

7 The "civilization-language-culture" relationship in reading books for teaching in French to allophone schoolchildren (1885-1930): A window opened to the past

Valérie Spaëth

IV East Africa

8 From teaching non-Arabs Arabic to Arabization in 1950s Sudan

Andrea Facchin

9 Italian colonial educational policy in the Horn of Africa

Raymond Siebetcheu

V Middle East

10 How to create a language by describing it? Orientalists and pure colloquial Arabic

Tarek Abouelgamal

11 Politique d'enseignement au Liban au début du Mandat français : les manuels scolaires en français et la place de l'arabe au Collège de Beyrouth

Manar El Kak

VI Southeast Asia.

12 The Romanized writing of Vietnamese: A unique case in the Far East

Thị Kiều Ly Phạm and Mariangela Albano

13 On Indonesian and English as lingua francas: Colonial, national, global

Joseph Errington

VII Europe

14 Un empire culturel et littéraire : quelques grammaires de l'italien langue étrangère (seizième-dix-septième siècle)

Giada Mattarucco

15 "A language that reigns in the city": Italian in grammar books for foreigners (second half of the 18th century)

Norma Romanelli

16 L'enseignement du grec moderne comme langue étrangère : des missionnaires catholiques aux grammairiens philhellènes

Lélia (Evangélia) Pantéloglou

List of abbreviations (Index)

Index of names

Index of languages and script names

List of Figures

Fig. 1a. Annotated translation in Quintana's Compendio de Vozes Mixes (1733), fol. 97

Fig. 1b. Quintana's Compendio de Vozes Mixes (1733), fol. 126

Fig. 2a Alphabetum Armenum (1784), frontispiece

Fig. 2b Alphabetvm Ibericvm siue Georgianvm vulgare (1629), frontispiece

Figs. 3a &amp

3b. Hernández, Doctrina Christiana en lengva misteca (1568), fols. LV and LXII

Figs. 4a &amp

4b. Flores, Arte de la lengva metropolitana del reyno Cakchiquel (1753), fols. 36 and 286

Figs. 5a, 5b, &amp

5c. Flores, Arte de la lengva metropolitana del reyno Cakchiquel (1753), fols. 284, 127, and 108

E: English, S: Spanish, I: Italian, P: Portuguese, F: French

Fig. 6. Morrison, Dictionary of the Chinese Language, vol. 1 (1815), p. 44240

Fig. 7. "Map of the races of French West Africa providing Senegalese tirailleurs" (legend), in La Dépêche coloniale illustrée, February 1917, n.p. [23&gt

24]: "French West Africa and black troops"

Fig. 8. Cover of Ferrage, Petit manuel français-bambara à l'usage des troupes noires (1918).

Fig. 9. Excerpt taken from Ferrage, Petit manuel français-bambara à l'usage des troupes noires (1918)

Fig. 10. Excerpt taken from: Anonymous, Le français tel que le parlent nos tirailleurs sénégalais (1916), p. 21

Fig. 11. Drawing taken from La dépêche coloniale illustrée, February 1917, n.p.: "French West Africa and the black troops"

Fig. 12. G. Bruno, Le tour de la France par deux enfants (last page, 1904 edition)

Figs. 13a &amp

13b. Louis Machuel, Méthode de lecture (1885). Lesson 12, "Vengeance d'un éléphant"

Fig. 14. Sonolet and Pérès, Méthode de lecture: "Les métiers" [Professions] (1915)

Fig. 15. Davesne, Mamadou et Bineta (1931). Ch. 1-"School" and Ch. 2-"The Human Body"

Fig. 16. M. Fresco, Syllabaire (1891):"Monsieur Paul écrit," 90-91

Fig. 17. De Rhodes, Dictionarivm Annamiticvm... (1651), col. 1-2

List of Tables

Table 1. circonlocution and périphrase in French grammars before 1600

Table 2. circunloquio and rodeo in Portuguese grammars (Barros) and Spanish grammars before 1600

Table 3. Terms suplir/suprir, circunloquio/circunlóquio and rodeo in the first missionary grammars

Table 4. Chronology of compulsory schooling in Italy

Table 5. Public colonial schools in Eritrea and Somalia (1935)

Table 6. António de Fontes. Signs for tones, ARSI. Jap-Sin 85, fols. 89r-123r.

Table 7. Examples of English/Malay lexical usage

Tableau 8. L'enseignement/apprentissage du grec moderne (dix-septième-dix-neuvième siècle).

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Feb 2024).

ISBN:

1-003-69872-7

1-04-077417-2

90-485-5302-4

9781003698722

OCLC:

1393062321