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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
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 1978
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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" L (0.77 lbs) 232 pages
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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.

 
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