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1 online resource (230 pages) : illustrations |
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North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 198 |
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North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 198.
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| Summary |
In this impactful addition to the field of ethnolinguistics, Willian W. Megenney dissects the influence of African languages and cultures on contemporary Bahian Portuguese. The author aims at studying the connection between the use of Africanisms and socio-economic class. Megenney interrogates a broad swath of claims concerning potential syntactic, morphological, and phonemic influences in the field, giving sound analysis and drawing the conclusion that, with the potential exception of a causal correlation between the musical intonation in areas of high population density of people of African descent and the tonality of some of the studied languages, the only aspect that is incontrovertibly influenced is vocabulary, though direct source-traces prove problematic at best. Megenney's primary study of the interrelation of socio-economic class and the use of Africanisms, and the circumstances that allowed for the survival of such Africanisms in Brazil, is an intriguing read for any scholar of ethnolinguistics, as well as an excellent resource for researchers working in the Lusophone world |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-228) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Portuguese language -- Dialects -- Brazil -- Bahia (State)
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Portuguese language -- Foreign elements -- African.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Portuguese.
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Portuguese language -- Dialects
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Portuguese language -- Foreign elements -- African
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Mundart
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Brazil -- Bahia (State)
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Bahia
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781469643007 |
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1469643006 |
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