An overview of linguistic mechanisms introducing a Christian conceptual universe into the Bunun language

10.30403/Ethnologia.201810_(42).0002

戴智偉(Rik De Busser)

Bunun ； Austronesian languages of Taiwan ； Bible translation ； Christianity in Taiwan ； diachronic semantics ； language contact

民族學界

42期（2018 / 10 / 01）

5 - 37

英文

This article discusses how the translation of the Bible in indigenous languages of Taiwan created an entirely new vocabulary for representing the conceptual universe that was introduced by the Christianization of Taiwanese indigenous communities in the second half of the twentieth century. We focus particularly on Bunun, an Austronesian language of Taiwan. We will discuss which linguistic mechanisms the Bunun Bible translation uses to introduce novel concepts into the language, and how this new religious vocabulary influences the local interpretation of religious concepts.

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