Author: Ruth Margaret Brend
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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No detailed description available for "The Summer Institute of Linguistics".

Author: Todd Hartch
Publisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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An account of American missionary activity abetted by Mexican nationalists. Lázaro Cárdenas, president of Mexico 1934-40, is widely remembered as the most nationalistic and populist Mexican executive and was demonized by foreign investors scandalized by his nationalization programs, particularly in the oil industry. Less well known are his efforts to 'Mexicanize' indigenous populations and to reduce the power of the conservative Catholic hierarchy by encouraging anti-clericalism and Protestant evangelical activity. Common aims therefore united Cárdenas and Cameron Townsend, an American Protestant missionary. With the support of Cárdenas and like-minded Mexican officials, Townsend formed the Summer Institute of Linguistics, or SIL, a training school for Protestant missionaries who undertook to learn indigenous languages and to translate the Bible into those tongues. The official justification of this project was that the Indians' new vernacular literacy would serve as a bridge to learning Spanish and thus to assimilation into the larger national population. If at the same time Townsend's linguists also served as evangelists of a fundamentalist form of Protestantism, so much the better; in doing so, the SIL effort would undermine the Catholic hierarchy, which was seen as a rival of the Mexican state and its plans for secular national development. This unusual yet enduring alliance of a national government not known for friendship to foreigners and an unlikely collection of North Americans who united scholarship, political savvy, and religious zeal is this book's topic. The author relates the development of the SIL from its close association with official Mexico in the early 1930s to the late 1970s, when a growing anti-SIL alliance led by a new generation of Mexican anthropologists induced the Mexican government to curtail its support for the SIL. Hartch contributes objectivity to a topic that has been dominated by the polemics of either SIL supporters or opponents, recognizing the self-interest that actuated all parties, but also acknowledging that SIL, whether or not it meant to, empowered and enriched many indigenous communities through the provision of literacy.

Author: Ruth M. Brend
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110806177
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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No detailed description available for "The Summer Institute of Linguistics".

Author: Mildred L. Larson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Author: Charles James Nice Bailey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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A manual for investigators, teachers of English phonetics and theoreticians. The focus is on transcriptional procedures with an original emphasis on Southern British pronunciation, but since adapted this to the needs of a broader readership.

Author: Lila Wistrand Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556713309
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 397

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This Comanche dictionary is based on research drawn from the files of the late Eliot Canonge which he initiated in the early 1940s under the auspices of SIL International. Dr. Robinson has rescued and enhanced this important body of data which spans traditional and contemporary varieties of Comanche speech styles and four geographically identifiable dialects. The Comanche-English section of the work, with over 5,500 entries, constitutes the central portion of the dictionary, but an English-Comanche section indexes Comanche entries to aid in locating Comanche forms from the point of view of their English equivalents. In turn, Dr. Armagost's provision of an introductory exploration of Comanche morphology and syntax further enhances this volume as an important contribution to our knowledge of this branch of the Uto-Aztecan family of languages. This second edition has been improved for user-friendliness, especially in the English-Comanche section, making it much easier to find a Comanche equivalent of an English term. Lila Wistrand-Robinson has a Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin and served several years with SIL International in Peru. Her research was published in the book, Cashibo Folklore and Culture: Prose, Poetry, and Historical Background (SIL International Publications, 1998). She has also published an Iowa/Otoe-English dictionary and taught Linguistics and Anthropology at Kansas State University. James Armagost has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Washington. He has taught Comanche and other subjects at Kansas State University until retiring in 2001. He is the author of multiple papers on Comanche.

Author: M. Paul Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556713682
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 563

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Ethnologue is the comprehensive reference work that catalogs all the known living languages in the world today. It has been an active research project for more than 60 years. Thousands of linguists and other researchers all over the world rely on and have contributed to the Ethnologue. It is widely regarded to be the most comprehensive listing of information of its kind. Ethnologue is published in three volumes. Each volume is self-contained and can be used independently. This volume catalogs the languages of Africa and Europe. It includes: 2,476 language descriptions organized by continent and country 17,881 primary names, alternate names, and dialect names 95 country overviews with graphical language vitality profiles 72 color maps showing location and distribution of languages Statistical summaries for each continent by vitality status, language size, language family, and country Updated to include all new languages in the 2013 set of changes to ISO 639-3

Author: Summer Institute of Linguistics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Author: Philippines
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gazettes
Languages : en
Pages : 920

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Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853598272
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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World Languages Review aims to examine the sociolinguistic situation of the world: to describe the linguistic diversity that currently characterizes humanity, to evaluate trends towards linguistic uniformity, and to establish a set of guidelines or language planning measures that favour the weaker or more endangered linguistic communities, so that anyone engaged in language planning -government officials, institution leaders, researchers, and community members- can implement these measures.