After Nebrija: Academic Reformers and the Teaching of Latin in Sixteenth-Century Salamanca

Liere, Katherine Elliot van

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Participation Through Alphabet: Modeling Ideal Linguistic Roles1

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“…Missionaries’ alphabetic metadiscourse reveals that they expected study of artes to be accompanied by consultation with a native speaker who would provide phonetic demonstration (compare Smith‐Stark 2005, 51–54; van Liere 2003, 1081–1086). Hence, Fray Damian Delgado (1725, fol.…”

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Letters of Conversion: Meta‐Alphabetic Discourse and Linguistic Participation in Colonial Highland Guatemala

Matsumoto

2021

J Linguistic Anthropol

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The alphabets that Spanish missionaries developed in the sixteenth century to record Amerindian languages were intimately tied to the evangelizing and civilizing projects of colonialism. This article highlights the consequences of missionaries’ alphabetic ideologies for engagement, in writing as well as speech, with native speakers of highland Mayan languages in Guatemala. In their alphabetic metadiscourse, missionaries juxtaposed Spanish‐speaking learners and indigenous speakers in different and unequal roles for linguistic participation. Through close examination of missionary sources, I demonstrate that missionary ideologies of written language not only articulated script with speech but also delineated knowledge circulation and shaped the power dynamics implicated in language’s actual use in colonial Guatemalan society.

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Letters of Conversion: Meta‐Alphabetic Discourse and Linguistic Participation in Colonial Highland Guatemala

Matsumoto

2021

J Linguistic Anthropol

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Building Careers, Making a Legal Culture

Lynn¹

2013

Between Court and Confessional

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After Nebrija: Academic Reformers and the Teaching of Latin in Sixteenth-Century Salamanca

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Letters of Conversion: Meta‐Alphabetic Discourse and Linguistic Participation in Colonial Highland Guatemala

Letters of Conversion: Meta‐Alphabetic Discourse and Linguistic Participation in Colonial Highland Guatemala

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