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The voices of Eden : a history of Hawaiian language studies / Albert J. Schütz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [1994]Copyright date: ©1994Description: xx, 512 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0824816374
  • 9780824816377
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 499.4 20
LOC classification:
  • PL6441 .S38 1994
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Background -- 2. The Noble Savage Speaks -- 3. The Early Collections -- 4. Reducing the Language to Writing: Explorers' and Traders' Alphabets -- 5. Consonant Confusion -- 6. The Cornwall Connection: 3s, 8s, and Noah Webster -- 7. Fixing the Letters: Missionary Efforts 1820-1826 -- 8. The Missing Elements: Problems with Glottal Stops and Long Vowels -- 9. The Printed Word -- 10. Take My Word for It -- 11. From Word List to Dictionary -- 12. Hawaiian Grammars -- 13. English for Speakers of Hawaiian -- 14. Hawaiian for Speakers of English -- 15. Hawaiian and Polynesian -- 16. Language and Power: The Past, Present, and Future of Hawaiian Language Policy -- Annotated Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-493) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Background -- 2. The Noble Savage Speaks -- 3. The Early Collections -- 4. Reducing the Language to Writing: Explorers' and Traders' Alphabets -- 5. Consonant Confusion -- 6. The Cornwall Connection: 3s, 8s, and Noah Webster -- 7. Fixing the Letters: Missionary Efforts 1820-1826 -- 8. The Missing Elements: Problems with Glottal Stops and Long Vowels -- 9. The Printed Word -- 10. Take My Word for It -- 11. From Word List to Dictionary -- 12. Hawaiian Grammars -- 13. English for Speakers of Hawaiian -- 14. Hawaiian for Speakers of English -- 15. Hawaiian and Polynesian -- 16. Language and Power: The Past, Present, and Future of Hawaiian Language Policy -- Annotated Bibliography -- Index.

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