Description: Language Encounter in the Americas, 1 : A Collection of Essays, Paperback by Gray, Edward G. (EDT); Fiering, Norman (EDT), ISBN 1571811605, ISBN-13 9781571811608, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800 : A Collection of E
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800 : European Expansion & Global Interaction
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2001
Subject: Language Arts / General, Native American Languages, Emigration & Immigration, United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), General, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Item Weight: 14.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Foreign Language Study, Political Science, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Juvenile Nonfiction, History
Author: Norman Fiering
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Series: European Expansion and Global Interaction Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
