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A Grammar of God: Translation, Grammar and Memory in the Arte y reglas de la lengua tagala (1610)
thesis
posted on 2017-04-05, 01:23 authored by Marlon James SalesThis
dissertation investigates the translationality of missionary linguistics
through an analysis of the Arte y reglas de la lengua tagala and its role in
the transcultural commemoration of Christianity as a colonial religion in the
early modern Philippines. Published in Castilian in 1610 by the Spanish
Dominican friar Francisco Blancas de San José, the text is the primary model for
many subsequent colonial grammars of Tagalog, the basis of the modern-day
Philippine national language called Filipino. It is argued that beyond its
contributions to a linguistic analysis of Tagalog, the text should be read as a
grammar of God because its prescriptivist tendencies in formulating grammatical
rules also provide modes with which the colonial conceptualizations of divinity
are to be articulated in the indigenous tongue. In both the theoretical and
practical components of this dissertation, translation is considered as a
process inherent in missionary grammatization that serves to commemorate the
problematic equivalences of the colonial encounter. It is through this process
that Tagalog is endowed not only with structures based on the categories of
Latin, but also with historicizing themes that constitute a hybridized pastoral
discourse on colonial Christianity.
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Principal supervisor
Rita WilsonAdditional supervisor 1
Carlos UxoYear of Award
2017Department, School or Centre
Literary and Cultural StudiesCourse
Doctor of PhilosophyDegree Type
DOCTORATECampus location
AustraliaFaculty
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