The Role of Discursive Traditions in Mesoamerican Historical ­Linguistics. An Inquiry on Colonial Nahuatl Wills

Almost all colonial documentation of Mesoamerican languages was written on discursive models of European inspiration. In order to understand the relationship between the American languages and these models (or Discursive Traditions), and also to understand the theoretical implications, we made an an...

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Autor: Mendoza Posadas, Mauro Alberto
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Perú
Institución:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/23090
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/lexis/article/view/23090
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Tradiciones Discursivas
Náhuatl
Estamentos coloniales
Contacto lingüístico
Discursive Traditions
Nahuatl language
Colonial wills
Linguistic contact
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Sumario:Almost all colonial documentation of Mesoamerican languages was written on discursive models of European inspiration. In order to understand the relationship between the American languages and these models (or Discursive Traditions), and also to understand the theoretical implications, we made an analysis centered on the testamentary tradition to investigate the way these documents were translated to the sixteenth Century Nahuatl language. We particularly focused on the syntax-pargamatics interphase, so we could find the differences and similarities between the Discursive Tradition in Castilian and Nahuatl