A 1693 document sheds light on the translation into Castilian of witness testimonies uttered in the lengua general and recorded in writing a century earlier, as part of the activities of the interpreters-general in Lima’s appellate court (audiencia). The case demonstrates the official admission of written Quechua in judicial procedures as late as the closing decades of the seventeenth century. It reinforces the idea that the use of one or more standard varieties of Quechua by litigants and interpreters made the interpretive work of these translators in plurilingual contexts such as the court’s judicial district possible.

No description

A 1693 document sheds light on the translation into Castilian of witness testimonies uttered in the lengua general and recorded in writing a century earlier, as part of the activities of the interpreters-general in Lima’s appellate court (audiencia). The case demonstrates the official admission of written Quechua in judicial procedures as late as the closing decades of the seventeenth century. It reinforces the idea that the use of one or more standard varieties of Quechua by litigants and interpreters made the interpretive work of these translators in plurilingual contexts such as the court’s judicial district possible.

306 p. ; 24 cm.

No presenta resumen

A 1693 document sheds light on the translation into Castilian of witness testimonies uttered in the lengua general and recorded in writing a century earlier, as part of the activities of the interpreters-general in Lima’s appellate court (audiencia). The case demonstrates the official admission of written Quechua in judicial procedures as late as the closing decades of the seventeenth century. It reinforces the idea that the use of one or more standard varieties of Quechua by litigants and interpreters made the interpretive work of these translators in plurilingual contexts such as the court’s judicial district possible.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, hundreds of indigenous subjects crossed the Atlantic and arrived at the royal palace in Madrid to meet with the king. His travels reveal an imperial dilemma: different decrees prohibited the transfer of noble and common Indians to the Peninsula, but other royal decrees and customary practices warned the Council of the Indies and the Casa de Contratación that these visitors should not be forced to return to the Peninsula. Peru. It could hardly be argued that these trips constituted "painful pilgrimages" to Spain without any echo, in which the visitors were treated with "obvious contempt". Changing this paradigm involves understanding that both travelers and their legal representatives benefited from the limits imposed on the king's absolute power, in particular, that his "hospitality" and "liberality" —as expected of a universal monarch— were "unli...

TBA

No description