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The language of the Sangleys : a Chinese vernacular in missionary sources of the seventeenth century / by Henning Kloter

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Klöter, Henning, 1969-
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
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1 online resource (xxii, 411 pages) : illustrations
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English.
Contents
The Language of the Sangleys; CONTENTS; FIGURES AND TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; TECHNICAL CONVENTIONS; A. ABBREVIATIONS; B. SYMBOLS; C. TYPOGRAPHICAL CONVENTIONS; D. RENDERING OF HANDWRITTEN DIACRITICS; E. TRANSCRIPTIONS AND TRANSLATIONS; PART ONE EARLY MANILA HOKKIEN: MANUSCRIPTS, LANGUAGE, AND METALANGUAGE; CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION; A. THE TOPIC OF THE STUDY; B. HOKKIEN DIALECTS; C. THE ARTE DE LA LENGUA CHIO CHIU; 1. Extant Manuscripts and Authorship; 2. Year of Compilation; 3. Place of Compilation; 4. Previous Documentation and Research; D. MISSIONARY LINGUISTICS, 1. Missionaries as Fieldworkers2. Research Directions and Topics; 3. Language, Metalanguage, and Influence; 4. Perspective and Purpose; 5. Reported Titles and Extant Sources; E. EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES; F. RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND CHAPTER DIVISION; CHAPTER TWO HOKKIEN DIALECTS IN EUROPEAN SOURCES; A. INTRODUCTION; B. REGIONAL VERNACULARS IN MISSIONARY LINGUISTICS: PREVIOUS RESEARCH; C. ANALYTICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF MISSIONARY LINGUISTICS; D. THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: '...ALL THAT THEY DOE WRITE IS BY FIGURES'; E. DOMINICANS IN THE PHILIPPINES, OR: 'HAY PARTICULAR LENGUA, 1. EMH Documentation: Sources and Contexts2. The Analytic Approach of the EMH Sources; F. JESUITS AND MANDARIN, OR: 'EVEN THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN UNDERSTAND IT'; 1. The Linguistic Tradition of the Jesuits; 2. Tradition, Strategy, or Environment?; G. THE NEGLECT OF CHINESE DIALECTS, OR: 'THEY SPEAK CLOWNISHLY'; H. PROTESTANT CONTRIBUTIONS, OR: 'AN INDEPENDENT LANGUAGE'; I. SUMMARY AND CONCLUDING REMARKS; CHAPTER THREE LEXICOGRAPHY; A. INTRODUCTION; B. EMH SOURCES: REPORTED TITLES AND EXTANT SOURCES; C. THE DICTIONARIUM SINO HISPANICUM; 1. Historical Context; 2. Lexicographic Make-up, D. A LOST DICTIONARY: THE DICCIONARIO DE LA LENGUA CHINCHEOE. THE BOCABULARIO DE LA LENGUA SANGLEYA; F. TWO ANONYMOUS AND UNDATED DICTIONARIESIN THE UST ARCHIVES; G. SUMMARY AND CONCLUDING REMARKS; CHAPTER FOUR LANGUAGE AND METALANGUAGE; A. INTRODUCTION; B. PARADIGM AND PURPOSE; C. EXPLANATORY DEVICES: FROM NON-TERMINOLOGY TO NEW TERMINOLOGY; 1. Non-Terminological Devices; 1.1. Macrostructure; 1.2. Written Representation of Data; 2. Avoiding Terminology; 3. Questioning of Existing Terminology; 4. Terminological Innovation; 4.1. Modes of Pronouncing; 4.2. Classifiers as 'Proper Numerals', and D. CONSTRUCTED LANGUAGE?E. SUMMARY AND CONCLUDING REMARKS; CHAPTER FIVE PHONOLOGY AND ORTHOGRAPHY; A. INTRODUCTION; B. TONE DIACRITICS AND TONES; 1. Tone Diacritics; 2. Tone Categories; 3. Phonetic Properties of EMH Tones; 4. Notation of Tones in Other EMH Sources; 5. EMH Tones; C. CONSONANTS; 1. EMH Consonant Spellings and Hokkien Consonants; 2. Initial and Final Consonants; 2.1. Initial and Final ; 2.2. Initial and Final ; 2.3. Initial ; 2.4. Initial and Final ; 2.5. Initial ; 2.6. Initial ; 2.7. Initial ; 2.8. Initial and Final ; 2.9. Initial and final
Summary
An incisive, multi-faceted study of a Spanish-Chinese manuscript grammar of the seventeenth century, The Language of the Sangleys presents a fascinating, new chapter in the history of Chinese and general linguistics.
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ISBN
9789004195929 (electronic bk.)
9004195920 (electronic bk.)
9789004184930 (alk. paper)
9004184937 (alk. paper)
1283851970
9781283851978
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-401) and index.
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