LINGUIS R1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Language Death
19 Jun 2017
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Reducc on - process in persuading mayans to follow the policia cristiana, trimming the. Physically moving people to centralized towns with missions. Teaching the policia cristiana, changing mayan disposition towards colonial culture. Changing the mayan language: reducing to grammatical structures + exclusive translation of christian terms. Habitus: body of reducc on, developed after going through reducc on process - likes, dislikes, opinions, beliefs. Genre: means of communication - writing, songs, letters, speech. Key starting factor to present day language death - spanish now pretty big language. Expansive mayan knowledge (calendars, astro) quickly forgotten. One of the early colonizers - set example to other colonizers to impose their language. Yucatan peninsula only speak one language, makes this easier for spaniards to reducc on. Learning more languages to increase power and hierarchy. Some do believe - ladinos are very keen to learn spanish in order to be part of the church / gain knowledge and power.
