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Universidade De São Paulo Faculdade De Filosofia, Letras E Ciências Humanas Departamento De Linguística Programa De Pós-graduação Em Semiótica E Linguística Geral
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Rogério, Marcos Cláudio Pinheiro Costa, Martins |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | ZANNI, Ivan P. The birth of the Romance languages: an ecoevolutionary speciation process. 114 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) – Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2017. This work attempts to make an epistemological contribution to the studies on the birth of Romance languages and their coexistence with Latin. That contribution is structured as a review of the literature on the subject, according to principles that consider the transformations of languages as an ecological and evolutionary process (Mufwene, 2008). Based on the fact that languages are complex, dynamic and open systems, composed by inherently variable idiolects, this research examines the ways in which historical facts of political and cultural nature have acted as ecological pressures over the evolution of Latin and its speciation into Romance languages. In particular, the role of the Carolingian Renaissance as the starting point of a wide process of development of a categorization of such languages, as studied by Wright (1982), is analyzed according to that ecoevolutionary perspective. This work includes a comparison between the concept of language adopted here and the historical analysis grounded on it, and the mainstream concepts and analyses, in order to highlight some of the advantages of the chosen stance. The conclusion is: the frontiers between Romance languages have been built upon the construction of metalinguistic awareness, although the vastly variable ways in which those languages are effectively used have evolved from a historical accumulation of concrete communicative interactions influenced by a certain social ecology. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8139/tde-27112018-130433/publico/2018_AdrianaElisaInacio_VCorr.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8139/tde-12072018-152129/publico/2017_IvanPastaZanni_VOrig.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
