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September 27, 2022
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On the Linguistic Ideas Underlying the Work of 16th-Century Mesoamerican Missionaries

Publicated to:Historiographia Linguistica. 42 (2-3): 211-231 - 2015-01-01 42(2-3), DOI: 10.1075/hl.42.2/3.01esp

Authors: Torres, MAE

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Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Camino del Molino S-N, E-28943 Madrid, Spain - Author

Abstract

The purpose of these pages is to present the set of ideas regarding language and languages on which the work of the linguist missionaries was based. A corpus of works written in Mesoamerica, most of them in the 16th century, was selected, and authors and works of the Nahuatl, Purepecha and Zapotec linguistic traditions are examined. For the analysis of the texts, a historiographic approach was used that emphasizes the importance of the agent (the linguist missionary) in linguistic production and the epistemological importance of the phenomena of transtextuality, focussing particularly on the study of the authorial paratext of grammars and dictionaries. The analysis of the ideas of a general nature on language and the assessment of the indigenous languages that is induced from these ideas, documented in the texts that are analysed, leads to the establishment of a series of criteria shared by the missionaries that are presented, as a concluding statement, with their main arguments. The sources of these arguments are, above all, certain passages from the Bible, in particular texts of Saint Paul that the linguist missionaries cite and comment on repeatedly. They are further supported by biblical images that are used in a metaphorical sense and, occasionally, by historical figures that are presented as examples.

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Quality education

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Historiographia Linguistica due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2015, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q2 (Segundo Cuartil), in the category History. Notably, the journal is positioned en el Cuartil Q4 for the agency WoS (JCR) in the category Linguistics.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-09-24:

  • Open Alex: 5
  • WoS: 3
  • Scopus: 3

Impact and social visibility

Continuing with the social impact of the work, it is important to emphasize that, due to its content, it can be assigned to the area of interest of ODS 4 - Quality Education, with a probability of 81% according to the mBERT algorithm developed by Aurora University.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Esparza Torres, Miguel Ángel) and Last Author (Esparza Torres, Miguel Ángel).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Esparza Torres, Miguel Ángel.