Words of Conquest

Portuguese Colonial Experiences and the Conquest of Epistemological Territories

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5813033
AutoresCláudio Costa Pinheiro (0000-0002-6612-7931, Department of Anthropology, Campinas State University, Brazil), Claudio Pinheiro (0000-0002-4033-7973, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen36
Número1
Páginas37-53
Fecha de publicación2009-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIndian Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0376-9836 • E-ISSN: 0975-5977
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/037698360903600104
OpenAlexW2133921488
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas18

Along with the colonialist expansion of European Modern States, an intense circulation of natural species, commodities and people took place throughout the world then known to the Europeans. Regarding the flow of people, an initial dilemma faced was how to understand the immense 'galaxy of different idioms' contacted with the advance of the colonial enterprise. The lingoas (interpreters) were initially used as mediators between Europeans and the groups with which they came into contact. During the sixteenth century, Europeans began to 'civilise' the languages of those groups (in South America, Asia and later in Africa), by a process involving both grammaticalisation and dictionarisation, following an analogous and simultaneous movement that was occurring in Europe. Therefore, dictionaries, grammars and other instruments of translation were used to create understanding between languages, but also between cultures (habits, forms of sociability, and so on.)-both within Europe as well as in the colonial settlements

CONQUEST · Human settlement · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Lexicography and Language Studies