Libros de Otto Zwartjes (2 libros)

The object of this volume is the study of missionary translation practices which occur within a colonial context of political domination and spiritual conquest. Missionary translation becomes especially manifest in bilingual ethnographic descriptions, in (bilingual) catechisms and in the missionaries' lexicographic condensation of bilingual dictionaries. The study of these instances permits the analysis and interpretation of their guiding principles, their translation practice and underlying reasoning. It also permits the modern linguist to discern semantic changes that can be revealed in...

Edición crítica de la primera gramática del japonés en castellano, de 1738, destinada a la misión franciscana de Manila. En ella, Oyanguren compara el japonés con otras lenguas aglutinantes como el tagalo, el malayo o el vasco.