The Language encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800 : a collection of essays / edited by Edward G. Gray and Norman Fiering.
Gray, Edward G., 1964-; Fiering, Norman.
2000
P130.52.A45 L36 2000 (Mapit)
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Title The Language encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800 : a collection of essays / edited by Edward G. Gray and Norman Fiering.
ISBN 1571811605 (alk. paper)
1571812105 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint New York : Berghahn Books, 2000.
Language English
Description x, 342 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number P130.52.A45 L36 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification 409/.7
Note Papers presented at a conference entitled "Communicating with the Indians: aspects of the language encounter with the indigenous peoples of the Americas, 1492-1800," held Oct. 18-20, 1996, John Carter Brown Library, Providence, R.I.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-331) and index.
Added Author Gray, Edward G., 1964-
Fiering, Norman.
Series European expansion and global interaction ; v. 1
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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.

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