The Language encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800 : a collection of essays /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2000.
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| Series: | European expansion and global interaction ;
v. 1. |
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Table of Contents:
- Babel of tongues: communicating with the Indians in eastern North America / James Axtell
- The use of pidgins and jargons on the east Coast of North America / Ives Goddard
- Pictures, gestures, hieroglyphs: "mute eloquence" in sixteenth-century Mexico / Pauline Moffitt Watts
- Iconic discourse: the language of images on seventeenth-century New France / Margaret J. Leahey
- Mapping after the letter: graphology and indigenous cartography in New Spain / Dana Leibsohn
- Continuity vs. acculturation: Aztec and Inca cases of alphabetic literacy / José Antonio Mazzotti
- Native languages as spoken and written: views from southern New England / Kathleen J. Bragdon
- The Mi'kmaq heiroglyphic prayer book: writing and Christianity in maritime Canada, 1675-1921 / Bruce Greenfield
- Interpreters snatched from the shore: the successful and the others / Frances Karttunen
- Mohawk schoolmasters and catechists in mid-eighteenth-century Iroquoia: an experiment in fostering literacy and religious change / William B. Hart
- The making of Logan, the Mingo orator / Edward G. Gray
- Spanish colonization and the indigenous languages of America / Isaías Lerner
- Descriptions of American Indian word forms in colonial missionary grammars / Lieve Jooken
- "Savage" languages in eighteenth-century theoretical history of language / Rüdiger Schreyer.