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The voices of Eden : a history of Hawaiian language studies

Title: The voices of Eden : a history of Hawaiian language studies / Albert J. Schütz.
Author: Schütz, Albert J., 1936-
Publication: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©1994.

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Description

xx, 512 pages; 23 cm

Summary

How did outsiders first become aware of the Hawaiian language? How were they and Hawaiians able to understand each other? How was Hawaiian recorded and analyzed in the early decades after European contact? In The Voices of Eden, Albert J. Schutz provides illuminating answers to these and other questions about Hawaii's post-contact linguistic past. The result is a highly readable and accessible account of Hawaiian history from a language-centered point of view that will prove indispensable for Hawaiian language scholars and students and appeal to the growing number of Hawaiians who are reclaiming their language. Beginning with the observations of Captain Cook and his crew, continuing through the missionaries' profound effect on the language and its speakers, and ending with current issues of language policy, Schutz provides readers with not only a historical overview of Hawaiian but also an exhaustive analysis and critique of nearly every work ever written about the language.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The noble savage speaks -- The early collections -- Reducing the language to writing: explorers' and traders' alphabets -- Consonant confusion -- The Cornwall connection: 3s, 8s, and Noah Webster -- Fixing the letters: missionary efforts 1820-1826 -- The missing elements: problems with glottal stops and long vowels -- The printed word -- Take my word for it -- From word list to dictionary -- Hawaiian grammars -- English for speakers of Hawaiian -- Hawaiian for speakers of English -- Hawaiian and Polynesian -- Language and power: the past, present, and future of Hawaiian language policy.

ISBN

0824816374
9780824816377

LCCN

94030968

OCLC

ocm31011735
31011735
SCSB-2046167

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library