Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800Condition: NewISBN-10: 1571811605EAN: 9781571811608ISBN: 9781571811608Publisher: Berghahn Books, IncorporatedFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/01/2001Description: When Columbus arrived in the Americas there were, it is believed, as many as 2,000 distinct, mutually unintelligible tongues spoken in the western hemisphere, encompassing the entire area from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. This astonishing fact has generally escaped the attention of historians, in part because many of these indigenous languages have since become extinct. And yet the burden of overcoming America's language barriers was perhaps the one problem faced by all peoples of the New World in the early modern era: African slaves and Native Americans in the Lower Mississippi Valley; Jesuit missionaries and Huron-speaking peoples in New France; Spanish conquistadors and the Aztec rulers. All of these groups confronted America's complex linguistic environment, and all of them had to devise ways of transcending that environment - a problem that arose often with life or death implications. For the first time, historians, anthropologists, literature specialists, and linguists have come together to reflect, in the fifteen original essays presented in this volume, on the various modes of contact and communication that took place between the Europeans and the "Natives." A particularly important aspect of this fascinating collection is the way it demonstrates the interactive nature of the encounter and how Native peoples found ways to shape and adapt imported systems of spoken and written communication to their own spiritual and material needs.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Weight: 413gContributor: Edward G. Gray (Edited by), Norman Fiering (Edited by)Genre: Language & ReferenceTopic: History, Social Sciences, Society & CultureBook Series: European Expansion & Global InteractionAuthor: Edward G. GrayRelease Year: 2001 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800
Title: The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800
ISBN-10: 1571811605
EAN: 9781571811608
ISBN: 9781571811608
Release Date: 01/01/2001
Release Year: 2001
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 216mm
Contributor: Norman Fiering (Edited by)
Genre: Language & Reference
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Name: Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800 : European Expansion & Global Interaction
Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Subject: Language Arts / General, Native American Languages, Emigration & Immigration, United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), General, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Publication Year: 2001
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.6 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Norman Fiering
Subject Area: Foreign Language Study, Political Science, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Juvenile Nonfiction, History
Series: European Expansion and Global Interaction Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
