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Learning to Write Algonquian Letters: The Indigenous Place of Language Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
Ist Teil von
The William and Mary quarterly, 2014-10, Vol.71 (4), p.549-588
Ort / Verlag
Williamsburg: The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
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Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Examining one of the more prolific periods of missionary linguistics in
seventeenth-century North America reveals that a fragmented theological and
philosophical Atlantic context caused mystical ideas about language to splinter
into proto-Enlightenment notions of a separation between human words and divine
knowledge. America-based missionaries John Eliot and Chrétien Le Clercq
were forced to reconcile the linguistic autonomy of Wampanoag and Mi'kmaq
words, respectively. Instead of advancing the propagation of the gospel,
missionary linguistics revealed language to be socially and culturally
contextual (rather than universal) and signs to be material (rather than
metaphysical).