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  • GBV  (3)
  • Austin, Jennifer  (2)
  • Davies, Surekha  (1)
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press  (3)
  • Romance Studies  (3)
  • 1
    ISBN: 9781107036673
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 355 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten , 25 cm
    Series Statement: Cambridge social and cultural histories
    DDC: 912.09
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    Keywords: Cartography History 16th century ; Cartography History 17th century ; Geography Sociological aspects ; Western Hemisphere Maps ; Westeuropa ; Kartografie ; Illustration ; Amerika ; Afrika ; Südostasien ; Indigenes Volk ; Geschichte 1500-1650
    Abstract: "Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and England, Davies argues that mapmakers and viewers saw these maps as careful syntheses that enabled viewers to compare different peoples. In an age when scholars, missionaries, native peoples and colonial officials debated whether New World inhabitants could - or should - be converted or enslaved, maps were uniquely suited for assessing the impact of environment on bodies and temperaments. Through innovative interdisciplinary methods connecting the European Renaissance to the Atlantic world, Davies uses new sources and questions to explore science as a visual pursuit, revealing how debates about the relationship between humans and monstrous peoples challenged colonial expansion"--
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Renaissance maps and the concept of the human; 1. Climate, culture or kinship? Explaining human diversity c.1500; 2. Empires, workshops and Renaissance geographical culture; 3. Spit-roasts, barbecues and the invention of the Brazilian cannibal; 4. Trade, empires and propaganda: Brazilians on French maps in the age of François I and Henri II; 5. Monstrous ontology and environmental thinking: Patagonia's giants; 6. The epistemology of wonder: Amazons, headless men and mapping Guiana; 7. Civility, idolatry and cities in Mexico and Peru; 8. New sources, new genres and America's place in the world, 1590-1645; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9780521115537 , 9780521132978 , 0521132975
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 234 S. , Ill., Kt.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Austin, Jennifer, 1969 - Bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world
    DDC: 306.44/6
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    Keywords: Bilingualism Social aspects ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General ; Language policies Spanish-speaking countries ; Languages in contact Spanish-speaking countries ; Spanish language Social aspects ; Spanish-speaking countries Social aspects ; Spanisches Sprachgebiet ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Spanisch ; Sprachkontakt ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Spanisches Sprachgebiet ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Sprachkontakt ; Soziolinguistik ; Sprachpolitik ; Sprachwechsel
    Abstract: An introduction to bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world, looking at topics including language contact, bilingual societies, code-switching and language choice.
    Abstract: Bilingualism has given rise to significant changes in Spanish-speaking countries. In the US, the increasing importance of Spanish has engendered an English-only movement; in Peru, contact between Spanish and Quechua has brought about language change; and in Iberia, speakers of Basque, Galician and Catalan have made their languages a compulsory part of school curricula and local government. This book provides an introduction to bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world, looking at topics such as language contact, bilingual societies, bilingualism in schools, code-switching, language transfer, the emergence of new varieties of Spanish, and language choice - and how all of these phenomena affect the linguistic and cognitive development of the speaker. Using examples and case studies drawn primarily from Spanish/English bilinguals in the US, Spanish/Quechua bilinguals in Peru and Spanish/Basque bilinguals in Spain, it provides diverse perspectives on the experience of being bilingual in distinct cultural, political and socioeconomic contexts.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9780511844201
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Rsesource (xiv, 234 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
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    Keywords: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General ; Gesellschaft ; Spanisch ; Bilingualism / Social aspects ; Spanish language / Social aspects ; Language policies ; Languages in contact ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Sprachkontakt ; Spanisch ; Spanish-speaking countries / Social aspects ; Spanisches Sprachgebiet ; Spanisch ; Sprachkontakt ; Zweisprachigkeit ; Spanisches Sprachgebiet ; Zweisprachigkeit
    Abstract: Bilingualism has given rise to significant changes in Spanish-speaking countries. In the US, the increasing importance of Spanish has engendered an English-only movement; in Peru, contact between Spanish and Quechua has brought about language change; and in Iberia, speakers of Basque, Galician and Catalan have made their languages a compulsory part of school curricula and local government. This book provides an introduction to bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world, looking at topics such as language contact, bilingual societies, bilingualism in schools, code-switching, language transfer, the emergence of new varieties of Spanish, and language choice - and how all of these phenomena affect the linguistic and cognitive development of the speaker. Using examples and case studies drawn primarily from Spanish/English bilinguals in the US, Spanish/Quechua bilinguals in Peru and Spanish/Basque bilinguals in Spain, it provides diverse perspectives on the experience of being bilingual in distinct cultural, political and socioeconomic contexts
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. What does it mean to be bilingual? -- 2. Bilingual brains, bilingual minds -- 3. Bilingual development and bilingual outcomes
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