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Journal articles on the topic "Historical anthropology of language"
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Menéndez, Francisco Gimeno. "Language Change and Languages in Contact." IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science 29, no. 10 (October 2024): 35–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.9790/0837-2910023549.
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The hypothesis of the history of linguistics as a succession of paradigms was more appropriate to linguistic facts and to the continuity of history itself than to a substitution of models. One of the most assiduously maintained principles in historical linguistics was the theory of the regularity of linguistic change. However, both the history of languages in contact and linguistic change were part of acculturation, based on social and cultural diffusion, which implied the intrinsic relationship between linguistics, sociology and anthropology. It was not, therefore, a mere linguistic issue, but also a social and cultural one. In this sense, we had to differentiate two interpretations: 1) an autonomous version of the assumption of phonological regularity, and 2) a grammatical version of linguistic change. Within the anthropological history of Hispanic romances there was a linguistic and cultural continuity, based on the successive and diverse historical acculturations (Indo-European, Iberian, Phoenician-Greek, Roman, Christian, Germanic, Visigothic, Byzantine, Islamic, Castilian, Catalan-Aragonese, Hispanic and Anglo-Saxon), with the linguistic and cultural transfers that implied the social and cultural mixing of these groups, and the adaptation to a new sociocultural context. During the second half of the last century, great contributions to historical linguistics were accumulated, which were far from being recognized by historians of the language
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Menéndez, Francisco Gimeno. "Language Change And Languages In Contact." IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science 29, no. 10 (October 2024): 37–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.9790/0837-2910033751.
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The hypothesis of the history of linguistics as a succession of paradigms was more appropriate to linguistic facts and to the continuity of history itself than to a substitution of models. One of the most assiduously maintained principles in historical linguistics was the theory of the regularity of linguistic change. However, both the history of languages in contact and linguistic change were part of acculturation, based on social and cultural diffusion, which implied the intrinsic relationship between linguistics, sociology and anthropology. It was not, therefore, a mere linguistic issue, but also a social and cultural one. In this sense, we had to differentiate two interpretations: 1) an autonomous version of the assumption of phonological regularity, and 2) a grammatical version of linguistic change. Within the anthropological history of Hispanic romances there was a linguistic and cultural continuity, based on the successive and diverse historical acculturations (Indo-European, Iberian, Phoenician-Greek, Roman, Christian, Germanic, Visigothic, Byzantine, Islamic, Castilian, Catalan-Aragonese, Hispanic and AngloSaxon), with the linguistic and cultural transfers that implied the social and cultural mixing of these groups, and the adaptation to a new sociocultural context. During the second half of the last century, great contributions to historical linguistics were accumulated, which were far from being recognized by historians of the language.
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o'g'li, Xoldarov Saidbek Rahmadjon. "AL-BIRUNI'S ANTHROPOLOGICAL VIEWS (HISTORICAL ANALYSIS)." American Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanity Research 4, no. 12 (December 1, 2024): 235–41. https://doi.org/10.37547/ajsshr/volume04issue12-19.
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Al-Biruni (973–1048), one of the most prominent intellectual figures of the medieval Islamic world, made significant contributions to various fields, including anthropology. His works reflect a profound understanding of human societies, their diversity, and their interrelation with nature and culture. This article explores Al-Biruni's anthropological views, highlighting his comparative approach to cultures, his emphasis on empirical observation, and his contributions to the study of human behavior, language, and social organization.
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Voelz, Johannes. "Histories of the Unsayable: Reinhart Koselleck’s Aesthetic Anthropology." American Literary History 34, no. 4 (November 18, 2022): 1456–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajac155.
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Abstract This essay reviews Sediments of Time: On Possible Histories (2019), a collection of essays by the German historian and theorist of history Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006), edited by Sean Franzel and Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann. Written during the last three decades of Koselleck’s life and drawn from three German-language books of essays that came out in the new millennium, Sediments of Time introduces English-language readers to Koselleck’s historical anthropology—a central dimension of his oeuvre so far largely unavailable in translation. This essay argues that Koselleck’s historical anthropology is always also an aesthetic anthropology, which helps explain Koselleck’s recurring engagement with literary writers such as Shakespeare, Kleist, and Melville. At the core of Koselleck’s work lies an argument about the mutual interdependence of history and fiction. Herein resides Koselleck’s provocation for literary studies: if, for the historian, fiction provides insights into historical experience in condensed form, the reverse of this claim may engage literary scholars; for them, Koselleck suggests, the extraliterary, extralinguistic realm of historical experience is of crucial importance as a necessary condition for fiction.Koselleck’s plea to our field, committed to historicism as it is, is to return to the aesthetic in order to dive more deeply, more fundamentally into the historical.
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Godlewski, Grzegorz. "Anthropology of the Word." Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 24, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 7–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2015.240102.
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Anthropology of the word is an approach that originated in Poland, at the University of Warsaw, in the early 1990s. It emerged from philological study of language and literature, by widening and strengthening their cultural dimensions. Gradually, this approach grew closer to linguistic anthropology but retained its specificity, which consists essentially in considering linguistic practices as cultural practices, including language-mediated practices in which the verbal line is only one thread; studying historical forms of linguistic practices; recognising verbal art (including literature) as a set of peculiar linguistic practices and making it a subject of anthropological study; including linguistic practices other than oral and written ones; identifying various cognitive aspects of the textual bias in order to eliminate its distorting effect on the study of linguistic practices.
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Sumara, Dennis J. "Creating Commonplaces for Interpretation: Literary Anthropology and Literacy Education Research." Journal of Literacy Research 34, no. 2 (June 2002): 237–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15548430jlr3402_6.
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This article uses Iser's (1989, 1993) concept of “literary anthropology” to inform methods for textual interpretation that explicitly aim to create relationships among experiences of history, memory, language, and geography. This article presents an interpretive text, which functions as the report of the author's personal engagements with literary fiction and with philosophical, theoretical, and historical writings. In addition, the article provides a theoretical and historical overview of literary anthropology as a research method, with particular attention to how this method is influenced by the hermeneutic philosophic traditions. The article concludes with a discussion of what literary anthropological methods might contribute to literacy education and literacy education research.
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Raskladkina, Marina K. "Alaskan Russian: Cultural and Historical Trace of the Russian Expansion in North America." Humanitarian Vector 19, no. 2 (June 2024): 176–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.21209/1996-7853-2024-19-2-176-187.
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The article analyzes approaches to creating a chronology of Russia’s exploration of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, highlights historical periods relevant for the main purpose of our research. The goal is to describe the Russian language as a dynamic and integral part of a unique culture formed in the Creole communities, uniting the paternal culture of Russian colonists and the maternal cultures of the indigenous population. This culture lies in the center of social interactions and makes its core. The issue is topical for the present study, since it contributes to our understanding of the phenomena of the interaction of cultures. The Russian period of Alaska is recognized by researchers, both domestic and international, as an important and special epoch in the life of the American state, an epoch which to a great extent determined its history. Alaskan Russian was an intermediary language for the people from the continent and the native speakers of indigenous languages. It was used in communication until the middle of the 20th century. At the moment, the Alaskan Russian language exists as a cultural artifact: to a certain extent, it is known by a few descendants of Creoles of very advanced age. The purpose of this study is to create a historical context of the formation of the Alaskan Russian language and to describe conditions for its uprise and preservation on the territory of Russian America. We show that the existence of permanent functional settlements in which Russian language was spoken – in the family, in the community, and for trade and professional contacts – determined consolidation of the Russian language, in a number of places in Alaska up to the middle of the XX century. The data presented in the article confirm that the Orthodox tradition and the Russian language that have survived to this day are the main features of Russia’s long-term cultural influence in Alaska. The study used both universal scientific methods and special methods of historical research determined by the specifics of the problem, namely: the problem-chronological method, the method of comparative analysis, the systematic method. Exploring the influence of language on social life, the author adheres to the methods of linguistic anthropology and historical anthropology
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Carvalho, Fernando O. de. "The historical phonology of Paunaka (Arawakan)." Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas 13, no. 2 (August 2018): 405–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1981.81222018000200008.
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Abstract This paper applies the comparative method to unravel the historical development of the segmental phonology of Paunaka, an Arawakan language of Bolivia. Although the Paunaka vowel system features a single back rounded vowel, it is rather simple to show that it derives from a system with two back rounded qualities *u and *o, but that the former segment shifted to a high central unrounded vowel ɨ. The language has lost *r unconditionally, implying that Paunaka items with r are probable loanwords. Paunaka underewent a spirantization of *ts, thus merging this affricate with the fricative *s. Although Paunaka shares a coronalization of *k > s with Proto-Mojeño, most of the phonological developments that affected Paunaka are either recurrent in the Arawakan language family or only superficially similar to developments in related languages, and thus provide little weight as evidence for subgrouping. An Appendix is also included, with 105 etymologies matching Paunaka lexical and grammatical morphemes with their cognates in Proto-Mojeño, the two extant Mojeño dialects (Ignaciano and Trinitario) and Terena.
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Gray, Russell D., Quentin D. Atkinson, and Simon J. Greenhill. "Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366, no. 1567 (April 12, 2011): 1090–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0378.
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Historical inference is at its most powerful when independent lines of evidence can be integrated into a coherent account. Dating linguistic and cultural lineages can potentially play a vital role in the integration of evidence from linguistics, anthropology, archaeology and genetics. Unfortunately, although the comparative method in historical linguistics can provide a relative chronology, it cannot provide absolute date estimates and an alternative approach, called glottochronology, is fundamentally flawed. In this paper we outline how computational phylogenetic methods can reliably estimate language divergence dates and thus help resolve long-standing debates about human prehistory ranging from the origin of the Indo-European language family to the peopling of the Pacific.
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Linno, Saara Lotta, and Liina Lukas. "Multilingualism in Estonian Poetry." Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 90 (December 2023): 81–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/fejf2023.90.linno_lukas.
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Apart from Estonian, some other languages – from local dialects to major languages such as German and Russian – have usually also been spoken on the territory of Estonia. As a result, the literary culture of the local (small) language evolved in close contact with some foreign literatures and cultures. However, there is still no thorough analysis of how the historical change in the linguistic situation manifests itself in Estonian literature. Our article aims to draw attention to the multilingual nature of the Estonian literary field by giving a historical survey of the relations, contacts, and intertwining of the languages used in Estonian poetry from the 17th century to the present. To reflect the multiple facets of multilingualism revealed in poetry we mainly use a four-level approach partly based on Jaan Undusk’s typology of Estonian–German cultural contacts, adding the literary field as the level covering whatever is left. Thus, we treat multilingualism as a phenomenon observable within a language, text, author, and literary field. In terms of this study, intralinguistic multilingualism means language mixing in otherwise monolingual poetry, while intratextual multilingualism refers to abrupt transitions from one language to another (code-switching) within a text, and author multilingualism assumes a multilingual poet. Apart from the phenomena just mentioned, multilingualism within literature covers literary subfields in different language variants (for example literature created in South Estonian or Russian, but on Estonian territory). First, we will survey multilingualism in Estonia poetry before the Republic of Estonian was established in 1918, concluding that because German was the major cultural language up to the beginning of the 20th century, all poets, whatever their ethnicity, must have been fluent in two (or more) languages. The second period analysed spans the 20th century. The local Estonian poetry of the Soviet period stands out, with a few exceptions, for consistent use of Estonian, while some expatriate poets would also use English or Swedish. Third, we analyse contemporary poetry, where multilingualism is manifested not only by the use of local minority languages but also through intertwinings with English, Chinese or Japanese, thus giving evidence of an open society. Based on the picture emerging from the article we can say that apart from a historical overview, the multilingualism of Estonian poetry also needs closer poetic analysis.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Historical anthropology of language"
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Hayes, Jon Laurence. "A historical perspective and descriptive approach for American Sign Language and English bilingual studies in the community college setting." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185086.
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The purpose of this dissertation was three-fold. The first intent was to investigate the historical role of English and American Sign Language (ASL) in the communication, education and culture of deaf/Deaf people in America. The second purpose was to investigate sociolinguistical and physiological properties of American Sign Language in light of language learning among the deaf. And the third objective was to research bilingual education methodologies in order to interface knowledge and practices from bilingual education, communication and ASL research to the field of post-secondary education of the deaf within the framework of bilingual education. Evidence demonstrates that the history of language policies and educational practices for the deaf are strongly influenced by the majority language of English. A primary goal of education of the deaf has been the assimilation of deaf people into the hearing society. An avenue for this integration has traditionally involved the exclusion of ASL from the classroom and the mandate of Signed English systems and/or aural/oral communication. The incorporation of a cross-disciplinary blend of communication, bilingual education and ASL sociolinguistic aspects form the foundation for further investigation. This dissertation should serve as an impetus and reference point for others wishing to advance the education of the deaf, utilizing a bilingual approach.
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Nogelmeier, Marvin Puakea. "Mai Pa'a I Ka Leo: Historical voice in Hawaiian primary materials, looking forward and listening back." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1252.
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This dissertation explores a unique body of historical writings published in the native-language newspapers of the Hawaiian kingdom during the 19th century and examines the incorporation of these materials into contemporary knowledge. Scholars of the 20th century have translated a fraction of the historical material, reorganized its contents and published those portions as reference texts on Hawaiian history, culture and ethnography. These English presentations, along with other translated texts have become an English-language canon of Hawaiian reference material that is widely used today. The canon of translated texts is problematic in that it alters the works of the original authors, recasting important auto-representational writings by Hawaiians of the 19th century into a modern Western framework. General reliance upon these translated texts has fostered a level of authority for the canon texts similar to that of primary source material. Such authority and reliance have in many ways eclipsed the Hawaiian authors' original works and have obscured the larger corpus of published writings from the period. General acceptance of the sufficiency of the translated works, a dearth of access tools and few fluent readers of Hawaiian has resulted in much of the archive of historical material remaining unutilized and largely inaccessible to date. However, the impetus of Hawaiian language renewal efforts and more recent Hawaiian scholarship has brought new attention to this body of writings, and such awareness is generating new efforts to rearticulate this neglected resource into the production of knowledge, now and in the future.
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Babidge, Sally. "Family affairs an historical anthropology of state practice and Aboriginal agency in a rural town, North Queensland /." Click here for electronic access to document: http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/942, 2004. http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/942.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - James Cook University, 2004.Thesis submitted by Sally Marie Babidge, BA (Hons) UWA June 2004, for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Anthropology, Archaeology and Sociology, James Cook University. Bibliography: leaves 283-303.
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Walker, Iain Bruce. "An historical anthropology of Ngazidja." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2002. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27845.
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This thesis is an attempt to situate current development theory and practice in a historical context. The basic premise is that formal development projects on Ngazidja since independence have, generally, been unsuccessful. This lack of success can only be understood in a wider historical context that recognises contemporary social structures in Ngazidja as being the product of processes that draw deeply on external contacts and influences in constituting viable and strongly incorporative social systems. These processes are not susceptible to controlled intervention, external or internal, but are rather self-driven. This statement may seem self-evident to anthropologists, but is far from being so in the development industry.
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Bound, Mark George. "Nation-State Personality Theory: A Qualitative Comparative Historical Analysis of Russian Behavior, during Social/Political Transition." NSUWorks, 2015. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/33.
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The study theorizes that a nation-state can manifest a condition similar to that of personality commonly associated with humans. Through the identification of consistent behaviors, a personality like condition is recognizable, and the underlining motivations dictate national policy independent of any current social/political influence. The research examines Russia during two historical periods examining the conflict events and social/political transitions of the period, to identify common behavioral characteristics, which indicate the existence of any independent personality like trait.
The study focuses on two historical periods: the Monarch Period of Peter I (The Great), and the Post-Soviet Union period of Vladimir Putin, periods selected as historical eras in which Russia experienced major political or social transition. Using a comparative qualitative historical analysis with a behaviorist focus, the research examines these periods by profiling each era’s elements of society and the events of domestic and international conflict that Russia experienced, while evaluating the actions taken in response to each.
The research discovers that Russia exhibits personality like traits, similar to those associated with humans and are likewise developed from experience, and once imbedded into Russian psychology, regardless of the current social/political elements or situational conditions, remain prime motivators to Russian behavior. The personality like characteristic identified was similar to inferiority, which leads to behavior characteristics comparable to narcissism, as the definition of narcissism relates to the need for admiration and or acceptance. The study identified the origins of the inferiority like complex and the narcissistic like behavior pattern exhibited by Russia in both periods.
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Haines, Martyn. "Marx, Engels and anthropology : a historical study." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385464.
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Sutcliffe, Steven James. "'New Age' in Britain : an ethnographical and historical exploration." Thesis, Open University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244522.
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Saura, Sylvain. "Poésie et technique conjuratoire : Energétique du poème chez Benjamin Fondane et Henri Meschonnic." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Côte d'Azur, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024COAZ2038.
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Le point de départ de cette étude se situe dans le présupposé anthropologique selon lequel la création d'artefacts, qu'il s'agisse d'objets techniques, de magie, de science, de médecine, d'art, ou de toute autre forme d'ouvrage humain, sert au maintien et à la continuation de la vie contre ce qui peut potentiellement lui nuire. Ce présupposé provient à la fois des travaux anthropologiques sur la magie et de la réflexion philosophique autour de la notion de technique, considérée comme ce qui lutte contre les déperditions de force à l'œuvre au cœur de la vie. De leur point de vue, les pratiques culturelles dont se dote une société donnée sont ce qui garantit son degré de présence, ce qui tente de sécuriser un « être là », de conjurer une forme de mort, dans une lutte constante pour son affirmation sur l'arrière-plan d'entropie et de perte d'énergie qui guette la marche du monde comme les productions culturelles elles-mêmes. Ce travail de thèse interroge alors le rôle de la poésie, en tant que pratique culturelle, dans la perspective de ce drame existentiel pour tenter de l'approcher comme une « technique conjuratoire », une pratique du sens qui agit sur d'autres formes d'élaboration du sens, les modifie, en libère la charge vitale, là où le sens s'était justement figé en connaissance désincarnée, voire mortifère. Cet accroissement de valeur existentielle par le biais du poème prend la forme d'un geste polémique et salvateur particulièrement repérable dans les œuvres de Benjamin Fondane et d'Henri Meschonnic. Le poème se conçoit chez eux comme une « technique obscure », une « technique de sauvetage du je », soit une lutte engagée contre les formes fossilisées de la pensée, du savoir et des productions esthétiques elles-mêmes, lesquelles sont, de leurs points de vue, à l'origine des catastrophes civilisationnelles du XXème siècle. Comment la parole poétique demeure-t-elle créatrice de valeurs vitales ? La réponse apportée par ces deux poètes se situe dans la mise en présence, au travers de la technique du poème, d'un indéterminé du langage et des idées, d'« une pensée qui cherche quelque chose qu'elle ne puisse penser », de ce qui « se trouve sans nom jusqu'à présent », sans lieu et dont la trace persiste dans la teneur spectrale de la parole poétique. Le poème se ferait donc technique conjuratoire par l'invocation et la production de signes fascinants qui s'articulent autour du passage d'un inconnu, d'un in-conceptualisable dans le langage. Cette conjuration met en même temps à distance les formes de langage pouvant potentiellement paralyser les formes de vie et les transformer en fossiles ou en fantômes. La méthodologie adoptée dans cette étude s'envisage comme une énergétique, non comme une systématique. Il s'agit de rendre compte de ces moments particuliers du poème où la parole capte dans ses rets l'intuition vitale qui échappe aux pièges de la fixation en essences et en concepts. À la croisée de l'anthropologie culturelle, de la poésie et de la philosophie, apparaissent les jeux de force du poème, que les écrits de Fondane et de Meschonnic mettent en lumière : la « mythologie » de la parole poétique, soit les lieux où la parole se trouve historiquement « prise », conditionnée, voire limitée et sa « rhétorique », soit les moments où la parole « prend » et libère l'énergie qui se trouvait jusque-là inexprimée ou enfermée dans les cadres culturels qui leurs sont contemporains. La tâche du poète comme celle du penseur serait donc de « rompre l'enchantement » de ces cadres culturels et de rendre possible, devant toutes les forces de pensée qui risqueraient de la rendre inaudible, l'expression d'un « mieux vivre »The starting point of this study is the anthropological presupposition that the creation of artefacts, whether technical objects, magic, science, medicine, art or any other form of human work, serves to maintain and continue life against that which can potentially harm it. This presupposition stems both from anthropological work on magic and from philosophical reflection on the notion of technique, seen as that which combats the loss of force at the heart of life. From their point of view, the cultural practices with which a given society equips itself are what guarantee its degree of presence, what attempt to secure a "being there", to ward off a form of death, in a constant struggle to assert itself against the background of entropy and energy loss that threatens the march of the world as much as the cultural artefacts itself. This thesis therefore examines the role of poetry, as such a cultural practice, in the context of this existential drama, in an attempt to approach it as a « conjuring technique », a practice of meaning that acts on other forms of meaning-making, modifying them and releasing their vital charge, where meaning had become frozen in disembodied, even mortifying, knowledge. This increase in existential value through the poem takes the form of a polemical and salvific gesture that is particularly noticeable in the works of Benjamin Fondane and Henri Meschonnic. For them, the poem is defined as an « obscure technique », a « technique for rescuing the I », a struggle against the fossilised forms of thought, knowledge and aesthetic production themselves, which, in their view, are at the root of the civilisational catastrophes of the twentieth century. How can poetry continue to create vital values? The answer offered by these two poets lies in the presence, through the technique of the poem, of the indeterminate nature of language and ideas, of « a thought that seeks something it cannot think », of that which « has been nameless until now », placeless and whose trace persists in the spectral content of poetic speech. The poem, then, becomes a conjuring technique through the invocation and production of fascinating signs articulated around the passage of the unknown, the unconceptualisable in language. At the same time, this conjuration distances the forms of language that could potentially paralyse life forms and transform them into fossils or ghosts. The methodology adopted in this study is intended to be an energetic, not a systematic. The aim is to give an account of those particular moments in the poem when words capture the vital intuition that escapes the traps of being fixed in essences and concepts. At the crossroads of cultural anthropology, poetry and philosophy, the power plays of the poem emerge, as highlighted by the writings of Fondane and Meschonnic: the « mythology » of modern poetry, in other words the places where the poetic speech is historically « trapped », conditioned, even limited, and its « rhetoric », in other words the moments when the word « functions » and seeks to release the energy that was hitherto unexpressed or locked up in their contemporary cultural frameworks. The task of the poet, like that of the thinker, is to « break the spell » of these cultural frameworks and to make possible the expression of a « better living » in the face of all the forces of thought that might render it inaudible
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Fairbanks, Julie. "A matter of artistry Adyg identity, performance and historical memory /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3297095.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Anthropology, 2007.Title from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 25, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-02, Section: A, page: 0649. Adviser: Anya Peterson Royce.
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Hudson-Rodd, Nancy. "Place and health in Canada: Historical roots of two healing traditions." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/7550.
Full textBooks on the topic "Historical anthropology of language"
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Bakker, Peter. What is the Romani language? Paris: Centre de recherches tsiganes, 2000.
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Nevalainen, Terttu. Historical sociolinguistics: Language change in Tudor and Stuart England. London: Longman, 2003.
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Makovskiĭ, M. M. I͡A︡zyk--mif--kulʹtura: Simvoly zhizni i zhiznʹ simvolov. Moskva: In-t russkogo i͡a︡zyka im. V.V. Vinogradova Rossiĭskoĭ akademii nauk, 1996.
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Ross, Malcolm. The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society. 2nd ed. Canberra: ANU E Press, 2007.
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1928-, Williams Drid, ed. Anthropology and human movement: The study of dances. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 1997.
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Nikolaevna, Mamontova Nina, and Pasi︠u︡kova S. P, eds. Rodnye serdt︠s︡u imena: Sbornik materialov respublikanskogo konkursa po karelʹskoĭ toponimii. Petrozavodsk: Karelʹskiĭ nauchnyĭ t︠s︡entr RAN, 2006.
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Bickel, Balthasar, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson, and Alan Timberlake, eds. Language Typology and Historical Contingency. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tsl.104.
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Sommer, Marianne. "1. Esthetics, Diagrammatics, and Metrics." In The Diagrammatics of ‘Race’, 17–28. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0396.02.
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Researches into the Physical History of Man (1813) of ‘the founder of modern anthropology’, James Cowles Prichard, codified the comparative-historical approach that was based on the study of languages and other aspects of culture. However, it also already responded to the fledgling physical anthropology, or craniology, as practiced by such figures as Petrus Camper and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. Camper and Blumenbach among other things explored diagrams for their possibilities of experimentation. Both men used diagrams to suggest the feasibility of morphing human varieties into each other. Like Prichard’s ethnography, Camper’s and Blumenbach’s diagrammatics aimed to demonstrate the single origin and unity of humankind.
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Dohle, Ebany. "The Interrelation Between Language, History, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge Within the Nahuat-Pipil Context of El Salvador." In Living with Nature, Cherishing Language, 257–95. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38739-5_9.
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AbstractThis chapter looks at the interrelation between Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), language, and historical events within the context of the Nahuat-Pipil language of El Salvador. It deals with what some refer to as Indigenous Knowledge (IK), Traditional Knowledge (TK), or Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), domains that position knowledge within broader contexts and social systems. The approaches and theories applied in this chapter are based on interactions with Indigenous people in western El Salvador from the towns of Santo Domingo de Guzmán, Nahuizalco, and Cuisnahuat where Nahuat-Pipil is most widely spoken. The research questions are a response to their specific request to conduct research on TEK, as ‘We are losing this knowledge, and without it we cannot call ourselves Indigenous’ (T. Pedro, personal communication, July 2012). Having established a baseline for understanding the motivations behind Indigenous interest in TEK, it is possible to then focus on the Nahuat-Pipil linguistic repertoire and how TEK is encoded within it. Thus, the investigation turns to the question of the ethnobiological categorization and classification of plants, how this is achieved by speakers of Nahuat-Pipil, and whether cognitive categorization strategies are reflected in the language itself. The investigation then examines folk nomenclature of plants by presenting their internal linguistic composition. The investigation of plant names is used to further inform the documentation efforts of Nahuat-Pipil by adding new focalized materials to the existing range of resources. The theoretical framework and methods employed to collect data for this body of research are interdisciplinary and draw largely upon ethnobotany, anthropology, the collection of oral histories, and sociolinguistics, in addition to my core background as a linguist and language documenter. By seeking to listen to and understand the requests of the language and speech community, this chapter thus aims to investigate how TEK informs the construction of sociocultural identity through language use, and how TEK itself is cognitively, culturally, and linguistically encoded in Nahuat-Pipil.
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Szakolczai, Arpad. "Historical methods." In Political Anthropology as Method, 161–93. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003275138-14.
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Levinson, Stephen C. "Cognitive anthropology." In Culture and Language Use, 50–57. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hoph.2.05lev.
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Eller, Jack David. "Language and social relations." In Cultural Anthropology, 63–83. Fourth edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429197710-4.
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Coello de la Rosa, Alexandre, and Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste. "Anthropology and History." In In Praise of Historical Anthropology, 11–53. New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2020. | Series: Routledge approaches to history; vol 35: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003017769-1.
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Eller, Jack David. "Religious language." In Introducing Anthropology of Religion, 77–101. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003182825-4.
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Ramšak, Mojca. "Olfactory Language." In The Anthropology of Smell, 21–33. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61759-1_3.
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Herndon, Jeanne H. "Comparative and Historical Linguistics." In Language, 599–603. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13421-2_35.
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Rose, Jerome C., and Peter S. Ungar. "Gross Dental Wear and Dental Microwear in Historical Perspective." In Dental Anthropology, 349–86. Vienna: Springer Vienna, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7496-8_19.
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VanÄo, Ildikó, and István Kozmács. "Relationship between the Identity and Language Attitudes toward Mother Tongue among Young Udmurt People and Slovakian Hungarians." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.5-7.
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In our paper, we will shortly define the notion of minority, identify the basic issues of a sense of identity, and clarify the role of language in the maintenance of minorities and their identities. The group identity of minorities can be defined along three main factors which occur as historical, linguistic and cultural identity within a certain spatial and time frame. There are various group identities, and groups usually give special attention to some characteristic features, as language, race or religion (Cseresnyési 2004). We will discuss the role of one of these, namely, that of language. We will demonstrate the relationships of language and identity through language attitudes of nationalities, Hungarians in Slovakia and Udmurts in Russia, which are similar in quota but different in their historical past and social situation today) (Shirobokova 2008; Kozmács 2008). We will ask what the role of language in different state formations is and whether identity maintenance plays a role in the maintenance of minority languages and linguistic diversity. The aspects of the research are as follows: who considers what a mother tongue is; what is the relation between the mother tongue and the sense of origin; which are the main features of national affiliation; what is the importance of the mother tongue in national affiliation. The data are provided as results of a questionnaire survey. The target groups of the research were university students as future intellectuals and consequently opinion-shapers of the given ethnicity. Four groups were formed: Hungarian university students in Slovakia, Russian university students in Udmurtia, Udmurt university students in Udmurtia, and Hungarian university students in Hungary.
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Botsi, Elena. "Management of Language Boundaries: Autoethnography by a Documentary Film about an Arvanitika Language Community in Greece." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.3-2.
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Arvanitika is a threatened language that is spoken in very few areas of Greece. Greece's Arvanitika -speaking communities, scattered in suburban areas, mainly in southern mainland and island Greece. These were founded in the Late Middle Ages during the Byzantine and Frankish conquest of Ottoman rule in the Southern Balkans, and merged with the new Greek nation by virtue of the Greek Orthodox faith and the struggle for liberation toward the Turks. Arvanitika is a branch of the South Albanian Tosk dialect characterized by a phenomenon of pidginization from Greek of various historical periods. During the period of language isolation, language contact with the official Albanian language was followed by massive Albanian migration to Greece in the early 1990s. The era of Albanian immigration finds the Arvanitika language, a low-status language, in a phase of linguistic change and transition from bilingual (Arvanitika-Greek) to the monolingual (Greek) situation mainly by the younger generations, where the Arvanitika communities remain in a phase of urbanization. The need to delineate the Arvanitika language from the official Albanian language and the negotiation of their ethnic identity leads the Arvanitika-speakers to a symbolic affirmation of difference between the two languages. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in language recording and salvage, especially at the folklore level with the revival of traditions. The present paper is a linguistic autoethnography that focuses on the participation of the referent person in a documentary film about an Arvanitika village, in which she plays a dual role, that of the researcher, and as well as of the indigenous community member, in attempting to negotiate between science and domestic linguistic ideologies.
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Presutti, Stefano. "The Power of National Identity at the Grapho-Phonological Level: A Case in Italian." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.6-4.
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The Western European nationalism in the modern era, which developed the ideal of nation-state, was based on two key concepts; language standardization and monolingualism. However, today the relationship between language and national identity is overly rigid and anachronistic, and would do well to become modified in order to be more suitable for contemporary transnational fluidity. With respect to previous research in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics, this study originally focuses attention on the interrelations between written and spoken language, specifically at a grapho-phonological level. This paper investigates distinct elements of a specific language; the phoneme of the palatal lateral approximant and its related graphemes in standard Italian. I examine through historical-linguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives the diachronic, diatopic, and diastratic features that, during the formation, standardization and massification of language processes, led these target elements to cross boundaries; passing the non-symbolic to symbolic threshold, and becoming standard and prestigious identity markers of Italian. The findings show that today, national languages and identities are not disappearing, but with the formation of global identity and language, new and more flexible boundaries are being created, more appropriate to faster and more layered inter- and intra-linguistic communication.
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Roy, Sylvie. "Politics of French in Canada: Reminiscence of Past European History with a New Twist." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.6-2.
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Languages in Canada, especially French, continue to reflect the history and power domination of its European origins. French is one of the official languages of Canada, but is also a minority language for some of its communities outside of the province of Québec, which is situated in Eastern Canada. It is protected by strong ideological and political influence, and by law. In this paper, I would like to reflect on how historical, cultural, and social aspects of French are reproduced and also on how transnational fluidity and multilingual practices are deconstructing or unbounding the idea of how French is seen in one Canadian province: Alberta. This Western Province has a strong conservative base and still has issue with French being an official language, a reminiscence of the past. Drawing on my work (Roy 2020), I take a sociolinguistic for change perspective, where historical and social understandings allow for critical view of ideologies and social change. I also examine and investigate social processes (e.g., social categorization, marginalization, etc.), and how ideologies can impact as well as impede processes of social identity construction and socialization into language pedagogies. In addition, I employ Pennycook and Makoni’s (2020) idea that, as researchers, we will self-reflect and be open to adopt a dialectic and multiple perspectives on the data collected. My data arises from longitudinal and sociolinguistic ethnographic studies in Alberta over a period of 15 years. Here, I interviewed participants (students, parents, administrators, teachers) in schools, particularly French immersion schools, as well as outside schools, in order to locate discourses related to French, where those discourses come from, and the long-term effects of those discourses, particularly for those learning French. I also include new data collected with multilingual students learning French. By looking at new discourses from multilingual youth learning French, and by observing their repertoires, I can demonstrate how the ‘old’ can be unbounded by youth’s everyday practices.
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Melai, Zeckqualine, and Alvy Rigar. "Moribund Language Documentation and Preservation: A Preliminary Study on the Punan Language." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.6-6.
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This study focuses on the Punan language in Punan Bah, Belaga, Sarawak. The Punan language is a language spoken by the Punan people, one of the minority ethnic groups in Sarawak. This study is a preliminary study of the language and acts as an early step in the effort to document and preserve the language. This preliminary study is pivotal in preventing teh language from falling into an endangered phase or becoming moribund. This study also aims to resolve confusion over some terms used to refer to the Punan ethnicity and Punan language. This study was conducted as field-oriented research. The respondents were selected based on several criteria and were native speakers of the Punan language, aged forty and above, and living in the Punan Bah area. Data were collected through interviews and voice recordings. The data include the history and the background of the Punan ethnicity. The outcome of the study shows that the Punan language and ethnicity are different from the Penan language and ethnicity, and these ethnicities belong to two different categories with their own respective identities. From historical and background aspects, the Punan language is spoken in eight long houses, namely Punan Pandan, Punan Jelalong, Punan Mina, Punan Meluyou, Punan Bah, Punan Biau, Punan Sama and Punan Kakus. From a linguistics aspect, it is found that the Punan language has four main variations; daily spoken language, ukiet (folklore), u'a and setuo. Hence, this study will explore the diversity of indigenous languages in Sarawak.
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Ghosh, Aditi. "Representations of the Self and the Others in a Multilingual City: Hindi Speakers in Kolkata." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.3-4.
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This study examines the attitudes and representations of a select group of Hindi mother tongue speakers residing in Kolkata. Hindi is one of the two official languages of India and Hindi mother tongue speakers are the numerically dominant language community in India, as per census. Further, due to historical, political and socio-cultural reasons, enormous importance is attached to the language, to the extent that there is a wide spread misrepresentation of the language as the national language of India. In this way, speakers of Hindi by no means form a minority in Indian contexts. However, as India is an extremely multilingual and diverse country, in many areas of the country other language speakers outnumber Hindi speakers, and in different states other languages have prestige, greater functional value and locally official status as well. Kolkata is one of such places, as the capital of West Bengal, a state where Bengali is the official language, and where Bengali is the most widely spoken mother tongue. Hindi mother tongue speakers, therefore, are not the dominant majority here, however, their language still carries the symbolic load of a representative language of India. In this context, this study examines the opinions and attitudes of a section of long term residents of Kolkata whose mother tongue is Hindi. The data used in this paper is derived from a large scale survey conducted in Kolkata which included 153 Hindi speakers. The objective of the study is to elicit, through a structured interview, their attitudes towards their own language and community, and towards the other languages and communities in Kolkata, and to examine how they represent and construct the various communities in their responses. The study adopts qualitative methods of analysis. The analysis shows that though there is largely an overt representation of harmony, there are indications of how the socio-cultural symbolic values attached to different languages are also extended to its speakers creating subtle social distances among language communities.
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Fedorova, Kapitolina. "Between Global and Local Contexts: The Seoul Linguistic Landscape." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2020.5-1.
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Multilingualism in urban spaces is mainly studied as an oral practice. Nevertheless, linguistic landscape studies can serve as a good explorative method for studying multilingualism in written practices. Moreover, resent research on linguistic landscapes (Blommaert 2013; Shohamy et. al. 2010; Backhaus 2006) have shed some light on the power relations between different ethnic groups in urban public space. Multilingual practices exist in a certain ideological context, and not only official language policy but speaker linguistic stereotypes and attitudes can influence and modify those practices. Historically, South Korea tended to be oriented towards monolingualism; one nation-one people-one language ideology was domineering public discourse. However, globalization and recent increase in migration resulted in gradual changes in attitudes towards multilingualism (Lo and Kim 2012). The linguistic landscapes of Seoul, on the one hand, reflect these changes, and However, they demonstrates pragmatic inequality of languages other than South Korean in public use. This inequality, though, is represented differently in certain spatial urban contexts. The proposed paper aims at analyzing data on linguistic landscapes of Seoul, South Korea ,with the focus on different contexts of language use and different sets of norms and ideological constructs underlying particular linguistic choices. In my presentation I will examine data from three urban contexts: ‘general’ (typical for most public spaces); ‘foreign-oriented’ (seen in tourist oriented locations such as airport, expensive hotels, or popular historical sites, which dominates the Itaewon district); and ‘ethnic-oriented’ (specific for spaces created by and for ethnic minority groups, such as Mongolian / Central Asian / Russian districts near the Dongdaemun History and Culture Park station). I will show that foreign languages used in public written communication are embedded into different frameworks in these three urban contexts, and that the patterns of their use vary from pragmatically oriented ones to predominately symbolic ones, with English functioning as a substitution for other foreign languages, as an emblem of ‘foreignness.’
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Hadzantonis, Michael. "Landscaping Dialects across Greece: Towards an Extended Ethnography." In GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/comela22.5-1.
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Greece’s language landscapes both geographically and historically multifarious. The dispersal of these dialects has been complexified by mixing and borrowing, as well as other factors, while their boundedness is blurred throughout the region. Many of these dialects and their applications (such as in miroloi and demotic music) are in significant decline, if not endangerment, and efforts to revitalize these languages are inadequate. Yet, these dialects, as an aggregate, also provide a significant source of local and larger (for example, national) ideology, where they each entextualize such an ideology in their linguistic appropriation. This paper presents work thus far on the ethnography of dialect and ideology throughout Greece. While a full ethnography of Greek dialects is not possible, efforts to build the landscaping of the country’s dialect map will contribute to the understanding of questions such as, how is ideology of Greekness represented through and entextualized in language forms throughout Greece, and beyond. This study draws on the frameworks of linguistic ideologies and entextualization as methodical frameworks. The language documentation has thus far spanned several decades.
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Mouli, T. Sai Chandra. "Towards Understanding Identity, Culture and Language." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2019. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2019.3-8.
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Knowledge of self is at the core of all human endeavours. In the quest identity assumes significance. It acquired greater relevance and respect on account of Postcolonial concerns. ‘Class’ emerged as the basis of a person’s identity. Subsequent to liberation of colonies from alien rule, postcolonial concerns gained ground. Focus on indigenous ways of life adds new dimension. Social, cultural, psychological and economic structures became the basis of one’s own view of identity. These dynamics are applicable to languages that flourished, perished or are on the verge of extinction. In India, regional, linguistic, religious diversity add to the complexity of the issue in addition to several subcultures that exist. Culture is not an independent variable. Historical factors, political developments, geographical and climatic conditions along with economic policies followed do contribute to a larger extent in fixing the contours of a country’s culture. Institutional modifications also sway the stability of national culture. Cultural transmission takes place in diverse ways. It is not unidirectional and unilateral. In many countries culture models are passed on from one generation to another through recitation. The learners memorize the cultural expressions without understanding meaning or social significance of what is communicated to them. Naturally, this practice results in hierarchical patterns and hegemony of vested elements. This is how norms of ‘high’ and ‘low’ are formed and extended to written works and oral/folk literatures respectively. This presentation focuses on the identity, culture and language of indigenous people in Telugu speaking states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh in South India.
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Omar, Asmah Haji, and Norazuna Norahim. "Lower and Upper Baram Sub-Groups: A Study of Linguistic Affiliation." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2020.3-5.
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It is not possible to determine the exact number of indigenous languages of Sarawak, one reason being the dialect-language dichotomy, as some isolects has not been ascertained. Ethnic labels may not reflect a linguistically homogenous group. That is to say that the language varieties spoken by an ethnic group may have a dialectal relationship with one another, or they may be heterogeneous, which means they are mutually unintelligible. This paper reports on the results of a lexicostatistic study that examines linguistic affiliation of a group of languages found along the Tinjar-Baram river basin, namely Berawan, Bakong, Narom, Kiput, Dali,’ and Miriek, and also their links with Kenyah Long Terawan, Lepo’ Tau and Belait in nearby Brunei. The paper also traces their historical past and describes how languages spoken by these ethnolinguistic groups have become affiliated to each other. For some reason or another, e.g. migration in search of greener pastures, internal rivalry or/and conversion to modern religions, these indigenous communities are forced to move away from their original speech communities, and they call themselves by different names in their new localities, usually after the name of a river or a mountain. These factors and categorisation on the basis of similar cultural attributes have caused misinterpretation of the identity of the indigenous groups in the past. The paper will clarify some of the misconceptions regarding the ethnolinguistic groups in the region.
Reports on the topic "Historical anthropology of language"
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Mundaca, Diego. Innovating from tradition. Notes on historiographical production of Jacques le Goff, from the Mentalities to the Historical Anthropology. Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.21001/itma.2018.12.01.
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Hoang, Helen, Othniel Williams, and Annette Stumpf. Pattern language for a more resilient future. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), October 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/47700.
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The Department of the Army (DA) manages over twelve million acres of land for military use, and almost 138,000 buildings. Military installations and other US DoD operations contain architectural structures and civil infrastructure that require continuous improvements to resiliency. This includes resiliency in the form of protection against both natural and man-made disasters. This document seeks to identify multiple risks to infrastructure and people and encourages open dialogue for creative solutions. Designers and engineers as well as other disciplines can work together to achieve higher resiliency in both new and renovated work. The following sections are created to provide a starting guide, utilizing various tools to discover the best resilient design strategies for your building. This special report will argue for actionable design strategies; drawing inspiration from historical building forms, while also looking toward emerging technologies that should be further explored.
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Adris Saaed, Saaed, and Wafaa Sabah Khuder. The Language of the People of Bashiqa: A Vehicle of their Intangible Cultural Heritage. Institute of Development Studies, August 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/creid.2022.003.
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The current study is an attempt to provide a linguistic, a historical, as well as a sociocultural record of the language variety spoken in Bashiqa (Northern Iraq) by one of the communities which represents a religious minority in Iraq known as Yazidis. This language is an example of an under-researched language diversity. This research draws on a sample of eleven in-depth semi-structured interviews with Yezidi men and women from Bashiqa, Iraq. The analysis of these interviews has yielded a number of points which help in documenting and preserving this language variety. The study concludes that the language used in Bashiqa is an ancient hybrid regional dialect in which many values and meanings are embedded. In short, the Yazidis understand their language as a vehicle of their intangible cultural heritage.
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Becerra-Stasiewicz, Natalie, Peter Stynoski, Clint Arnett, James Christensen, Sean Morefield, Veronica Gerios, and Madison Story. Flood resilience of individual traditional building materials. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), October 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/49446.
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The Construction Engineering Research Laboratory of the Engineer Research and Development Center is addressing emergency response and disaster relief capabilities in collaboration with the National Park Service, specifically related to the flood hardening and rehabilitation of historical structures. This report describes efforts to enhance the available data for assessing the resilience of individual historical building materials against flood conditions. In the context of official classification language, the experiments described by this report intended to mimic the effects of moving black water containing mold and sewage but lacking other harmful pollutants. Methods resemble those prescribed by ASTM standards E3075-16 and D7789-12, with minor adjustments to improve variable isolation. Pieces of individual historical building materials were scientifically subjected to simulated floods containing biological surrogates of mold and sewage. Water absorption by the materials and viability of bacteria and mold were measured throughout the experiment. Additional study is required to fully understand flood resilience of historical coatings on a variety of substrates.
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Бакум, З. П., and О. О. Пальчикова. Роль языковой картины мира в обучении иностранных студентов украинскому языку. Tanaka Print, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.31812/0564/402.
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The article considers the problem of teaching students foreign languages by means of comparing national linguistic pictures of the world. The analysis of linguistic and linguadidactic literature allows to interpret linguistic picture of the world as a set of knowledge about the world embodied in language form, more precisely - the specific features of the national language, reflecting cultural, historical and social experience of a particular nation. In this regard the national linguistic pictures of the world are not identical. The authors lay stress on the importance of taking into account the fact of national specific differences of linguistic pictures of the world in teaching foreign students Ukrainian as a foreign language, also indicate that special attention should be paid to linguacultural work with vocabulary and phraseology, in which national and cultural experience is embodied.
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PARSHUTKINA, T., O. BERKU, and T. KALENTSOVA. FORMATION OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE CONTEXTUAL APPROACH IN HIGHER DOMESTIC FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN THE 1970-1980S OF THE XX CENTURY. Science and Innovation Center Publishing House, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2658-4034-2021-12-4-2-59-66.
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The article is devoted to the problem of the formation of the foundations of the contextual approach in foreign language education as the most important scientific foundation of modern pedagogy. In the historical path of development of this approach, the authors distinguish the 1970-1980s of the XX century, since its main structural characteristics were formed during this period. The article concludes that the structuring of the contextual approach in teaching foreign languages in higher education was caused by the need to create a professional context in the conditions of educational activity. To this end, researchers and methodologists used the pedagogical and methodological tools of the contextual approach.
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Klengel, Susanne. Pandemic Avant-Garde Urban Coexistence in Mário de Andrade’s Pauliceia Desvairada (1922) after the Spanish Flu. Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America, December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.46877/klengel.2020.30.
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The radical aesthetic of the historical avant-garde movements has often been explained as a reaction to the catastrophic experience of the First World War and a denouncement of the bourgeoisie’s responsibility for its horrors. This article explores a blind spot in these familiar interpretations of the international avant-garde. Not only the violence of the World War but also the experience of a worldwide deadly pandemic, the Spanish flu, have moulded the literary and artistic production of the 1920s. In this paper, I explore this hypothesis through the example of Mário de Andrade’s famous book of poetry Pauliceia desvairada (1922), which I reinterpret in the light of historical studies on the Spanish flu in São Paulo. An in-depth examination of all parts of this important early opus of the Brazilian Modernism shows that Mário de Andrade’s poetic images of urban coexistence simultaneously aim at a radical renewal of language and at a melancholic coming to terms with a traumatic pandemic past.
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Abdulkhaliq, Zubeida S. Kakai Religion and the Place of Music and the Tanbur. Institute of Development Studies, January 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/creid.2023.001.
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This paper discusses the historical context and mythic framework of the Kakai religion. While some information regarding Kakai theological views and beliefs may be known to outsiders, many facets of their religious life, customs and traditions remain undisclosed. Much secrecy surrounds this religion, and non-believers are not encouraged to engage in or witness most Kakai rites. Geopolitical instability in the Kurdistan region also makes access difficult. Throughout this paper we will look at the relationship between Kakai beliefs and music (tanburo), and how the tanbur (a sacred lute) is not merely a musical instrument but is seen as a symbol of Kakai identity, with the music preserving language and legend.
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Vickers, Brendan, Salamat Ali, Neil Balchin, and Kyle de Klerk. Deepening Intra-Commonwealth Trade and Investment between the UK and Africa. Commonwealth Secretariat, May 2023. https://doi.org/10.14217/comsec.1111.
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The African Commonwealth countries have a long-standing history of strong trade, investment and diaspora linkages with the UK. These economic relationships have been fostered over time as a result of historical ties, similar business procedures and legal systems, and the widespread use of the English language. Together, these 21 countries represent about 40 per cent of the continent’s population and half of its gross domestic product (GDP). They also play a crucial role in driving international trade and investment flows from Africa. This issue of Trade Hot Topics explores the trade and investment linkages between the 21 African Commonwealth members and the UK. It also examines some of the key factors that are redefining these bilateral economic relationships.
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Datsyshyn, Chrystyna. FUNCTIONAL PARAMETERS OF ANTHROPONYM AS ONE OF THE VARIETIES OF FACTUAL MATERIAL IN THE MEDIA TEXT. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, March 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2024.54-55.12169.
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The main objective of the study is to reveal the functional parameters of anthroponyms in the media texts. Methods of investigation: the method of media texts monitoring, the comparative method; the method of contextual analysis, the methods of functional analysis. Results. Anthroponyms in media texts contribute to the exact reproduction of facts, the display of a certain time-space. The use of an anthroponym in the media gives its bearer greater social significance; silencing an anthroponym demonstrates a desire to remove its bearer from the public agenda. Anthroponyms can reflect person’s social connections, inform about a belonging to a certain national, ethnic, age, social group. Conclusions Anthroponyms give media text more credibility, because they inform about a specific person in specific realities, personalize information. Anthroponyms are capable to mark time-space, therefore the actualization of proper names can be a means of transferring to another time, informing about forgotten historical facts and persons. Given the ability of anthroponyms – the names of famous persons – to be reduced, the journalist should take into account the possible difficulties of identifying such a person in a different time-space or under the condition of insufficient recognition. Entering the language game, anthroponyms are actualizing simultaneously meanings associated with different time-spaces, such ability can be effectively used to draw historical or cultural parallels, create an expressive load. Given the ability of anthroponyms to increase or decrease social status, journalists should be responsible in the selection of proper names as part of the factual material of the media text. Marking through anthroponyms the connection with national, social, age groups makes these words unique identifiers of the division into “own” or “strangers”, demonstrates the attitude of the speaker towards the bearer of his own name. Significance. The revealed functional parameters of anthroponyms as part of the actual material of the media text provide journalists with ample opportunities for the implementation of various communicative tasks. Key words: media text, anthroponym, factual material, language picture of the world, time-space, social communications.