| dc.contributor.author | Dabrowska, Katarzyna Mikulska | eng |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-10 | eng |
| dc.description | Abstract The aim of this study is to analyze the linguistic "magical-religious" register of the Nahua people, designated as such because it was used for communication with the sacred realm. In this respect, it represents one of the "sacred languages," as classified by Zumthor (1983:53). Since such registers are less liable to change, they permit the reconstruction--although always imperfectly--of this type of speech as it existed immediately prior to the arrival of the Europeans and in addition the decipherment of (at least some) of the characteristic elements of Nahua oral tradition. In the discussion that follows we develop a hypothesis, namely that in the Mesoamerican codices that focus on calendar-religious subjects, in other words on matters strictly linked to the supernatural world, a similar magical-religious register should be evident. Far from considering the information presented in these sources as resulting from the direct transcription of oral language, my idea is that the graphic form represents elements emblematic of orality, although adapted to this particular context for expression. | eng |
| dc.description | Quotation marks removed from title to ensure alphabetical order. Difference as follows; "Secret Language" in Oral and Graphic Form: Religious-Magic Discourse in Aztec Speeches and Manuscripts | eng |
| dc.format.extent | 40 pages | eng |
| dc.identifier.citation | Oral Tradition, 25/2 (2010): 325-363. | eng |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10355/65218 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
| dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | |
| dc.title | Secret language in oral and graphic form : Religious-magic discourse in Aztec speeches and manuscripts | eng |
| dc.type | Article | eng |
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