| A Bahian Heritage: An Ethnolinguistic Study of African Influences on Bahian Portuguese Contributor(s): Megenney, William W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807891983 ISBN-13: 9780807891988 Publisher: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill D OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1978 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Portuguese |
| Dewey: 469.798 |
| LCCN: 78007710 |
| Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatu |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6" W x 9" (0.77 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |