TOYOSHIMA, Masayuki

[Term of ILCAA] from 1996 to 2013

Professor.

Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa,
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
3-11-1 Asahi-cho, Fuchu-shi,
Tokyo, 183-8534, Japan

Email: mtoyo[at]joao-roiz.jp

Personal Homepage: http://www.joao-roiz.jp/mtoyo/

Research interests: Medieval Japanese Philology (esp. Jesuit Mission press and related early Christian documents)

During the “Grand Voyage Era” through the 16th and 17th centuries, dictionaries, grammars, as well as doctrines and disciplines of Christianity were produced both in Latin/Spanish/Portuguese and in the languages that were targets of the propaganda.

“Missionary Linguistics” is a comparatively young branch of the history of linguistics, which treats these documents as testimonies of the first encounter of the Latin grammar and the languages that are fundamentally different from Latin, in Asia, Africa, and South America.

Sources of “Missionary Linguistics” as well as its researchers are scattered all over the world; there is, therefore, a need for international cooperative researches, such as the International Congress on Missionary Linguistics, of which the 6th International Congress was hosted by ILCAA.

http://www.joao-roiz.jp/MLG2010/

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