Linguistic Expression of Power and Subalternity in Peixoto’s Obra Nova de Língua Geral de Mina (1741)

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003092445-15" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003092445-15</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Linguistic Expression of Power and Subalternity in Peixoto’s Obra Nova de Língua Geral de Mina (1741)

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Märzhäuser and Rodrigues-Moura centre their analysis on a 1741 manuscript by a Portuguese clerk, António da Costa Peixoto, who lived and worked in the Vila Rica region. His Obra Nova de Língua Geral de Mina (‘New work on the general language of Mina’) – essentially a glossary of terms supplemented by short dialogues in LGM with translations to Portuguese – is interesting not only linguistically, but also because of what it reveals about the society in which it was used. From the discussion of this manuscript, we learn, for example, that some slaves managed to buy their freedom and engage in petty trade, enjoying an unexpected degree of agency in their relationships with the Europeans in the town. Indeed, the very fact that Peixoto took the trouble to learn this African language – and that he recommends that his fellow Europeans do the same in the interests of social peace – suggests that Gayatri Spivak’s famous question ‘Can the subaltern speak?’ (Spivak, 1994) deserves an affirmative answer in this particular case. (Karen Bennett)

Název v anglickém jazyce

Linguistic Expression of Power and Subalternity in Peixoto’s Obra Nova de Língua Geral de Mina (1741)

Popis výsledku anglicky

Märzhäuser and Rodrigues-Moura centre their analysis on a 1741 manuscript by a Portuguese clerk, António da Costa Peixoto, who lived and worked in the Vila Rica region. His Obra Nova de Língua Geral de Mina (‘New work on the general language of Mina’) – essentially a glossary of terms supplemented by short dialogues in LGM with translations to Portuguese – is interesting not only linguistically, but also because of what it reveals about the society in which it was used. From the discussion of this manuscript, we learn, for example, that some slaves managed to buy their freedom and engage in petty trade, enjoying an unexpected degree of agency in their relationships with the Europeans in the town. Indeed, the very fact that Peixoto took the trouble to learn this African language – and that he recommends that his fellow Europeans do the same in the interests of social peace – suggests that Gayatri Spivak’s famous question ‘Can the subaltern speak?’ (Spivak, 1994) deserves an affirmative answer in this particular case. (Karen Bennett)

Druh

O - Ostatní výsledky

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

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Rok uplatnění

2022

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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů