Two Examples of Linguistic Acculturation

The Yaqui of Sonora and Arizona and the Tewa of New Mexico

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2863544
AutoresEdward P Dozier (autor de correspondencia)
Año1956
Volumen32
Número1
Páginas146
Fecha de publicación1956-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/410663
OpenAlexW2321624196
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas22

This paper deals with an aspect of acculturation which has only recently received some attention in the literature. For the most part linguists have been concerned with historical and descriptive studies, and have generally ignored studies of languages in contact. Cultural anthropologists, on the other hand, have been content to investigate acculturation in its purely nonlinguistic manifestations. Studies of linguistic acculturation, however, can furnish valuable data and may shed considerable light on the general problem of acculturation. Whether language and nonlinguistic aspects of culture change differentially, or whether in every instance language complements and reflects nonlinguistic acculturation, is a crucial problem. In the present illustrations, linguistic acculturation seems to substantiate what has taken place in other aspects of the cultures of the groups under consideration, but this may not be the case everywhere

Acculturation · Archaeology · Ethnology · Geography · Immigration · Linguistics · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies