Language Encounters: Toward a Better Comprehension of Contact‑Induced Lexical Change in Colonial Nahuatl

The extensive corpus of colonial Nahuatl texts lights on almost every sphere of colonial life and cross‑cultural interactions between the Europeans/Spaniards and the indigenous world. This corpus contains rich language data related to contact‑induced change that reveal a simultaneous, prolonged use...

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Autor principal:	Justyna Olko
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Lenguaje:	EN PL
Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2021
Materias:	Nahuatl Spanish language contact language change colonial period cross‑cultural transfer Law K Political science J
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/ac70617661054903854d7a9716b5fe02
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ac70617661054903854d7a9716b5fe022021-11-27T13:08:36ZLanguage Encounters: Toward a Better Comprehension of Contact‑Induced Lexical Change in Colonial Nahuatl10.12797/Politeja.12.2015.38.041733-67162391-6737https://doaj.org/article/ac70617661054903854d7a9716b5fe022021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/politeja/article/view/2259https://doaj.org/toc/1733-6716https://doaj.org/toc/2391-6737 The extensive corpus of colonial Nahuatl texts lights on almost every sphere of colonial life and cross‑cultural interactions between the Europeans/Spaniards and the indigenous world. This corpus contains rich language data related to contact‑induced change that reveal a simultaneous, prolonged use of neologisms and loanwords, a widespread “Nahuatlization” of foreign terms as well as adoption of Spanish ideas and cultural stereotypes. The linguistic phenomena discussed in the present paper focus on lexical change, neologization, meaning change, borrowing and the creation of calques. These language innovations reveal the nuances of the complex process of cross‑cultural translation, the receptivity of European influence, the domestication of the new and the survival of traditional language resources. Justyna OlkoKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticleNahuatlSpanishlanguage contactlanguage changecolonial periodcross‑cultural transferLawKPolitical scienceJENPLPoliteja, Vol 12, Iss 6 (38) (2021)
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topic	Nahuatl Spanish language contact language change colonial period cross‑cultural transfer Law K Political science J
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description	The extensive corpus of colonial Nahuatl texts lights on almost every sphere of colonial life and cross‑cultural interactions between the Europeans/Spaniards and the indigenous world. This corpus contains rich language data related to contact‑induced change that reveal a simultaneous, prolonged use of neologisms and loanwords, a widespread “Nahuatlization” of foreign terms as well as adoption of Spanish ideas and cultural stereotypes. The linguistic phenomena discussed in the present paper focus on lexical change, neologization, meaning change, borrowing and the creation of calques. These language innovations reveal the nuances of the complex process of cross‑cultural translation, the receptivity of European influence, the domestication of the new and the survival of traditional language resources.
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title	Language Encounters: Toward a Better Comprehension of Contact‑Induced Lexical Change in Colonial Nahuatl
title_short	Language Encounters: Toward a Better Comprehension of Contact‑Induced Lexical Change in Colonial Nahuatl
title_full	Language Encounters: Toward a Better Comprehension of Contact‑Induced Lexical Change in Colonial Nahuatl
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Language Encounters: Toward a Better Comprehension of Contact‑Induced Lexical Change in Colonial Nahuatl

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