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- Title
Gérer la « confusion de Babel » : politiques missionnaires et langues vernaculaires dans l'Est du Canada (XVII<sup>e</sup> - XIX<sup>e</sup> siècles).
- Authors
GUILLOREL, ÉVA
- Abstract
This article argues that Acadia is a key territory to analyze how missionaries' linguistic strategies evolved from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. The linguistic orientations offer significant indicators to the larger political, religious and socio-cultural reorganizations in the colony. After the first attempts to establish missions in the early seventeenth century, ecclesiastics worked actively on the constitution and transmission of know ledge about Amerindian languages in Acadia in the eighteenth century. The major political and demographical transformations that went together with the British Regime led to a more and more complex linguistic situation. As a result, ecclesiastic authorities had to redefine their priorities in a co n text of growing competition between Catholicism and Protestantism.
- Subjects
ACADIA; CANADA; CHRISTIAN missionaries; LANGUAGE &; religion; CATHOLIC Church; DEMOGRAPHIC change; CANADIAN languages; HISTORY
- Publication
Revue d'Histoire de l'Amérique Française, 2012, Vol 66, Issue 2, p177
- ISSN
0035-2357
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1021592ar