Linguistic Identity in Asia

The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area, Mouton de Gruyter, 2019

Approaches to Language and Culture

In the early decades of the twentieth century, Franz Boas argued for the central importance of language to an understanding of culture. Specifically, Boas noted that certain aspects of linguistic structure, such as grammatical categories, rarely become objects of conscious reflection. Because of this, he proposed, these aspects of language provide a window onto primary ethnological phenomena (or "fundamental ethnic ideas"; see Stocking 1966, Silverstein 1979). In contrast, aspects of custom and tradition more available to conscious reflection are subject to secondary explanation and reanalysis, and get caught up in higher-order subjective schemes of social evaluation (as, e.g., "high", "popular", "traditional", "noble" and so on, see Sapir 1924). In recent years, linguistic anthropologists have focused on differences in the degree to which cultural phenomena are available to conscious awareness, finding here not a reason to privilege some kinds of data over others but rather a central mechanism of cultural dynamism. In what follows, we explore these issues at the heart of the language/culture relationship and some of the associated complexities of current semiotic theory through a consideration of the language-culture nexus in two settings in mainland Southeast Asia: historical developments in twentieth century Vietnam and contemporary life in rural communities of lowland Laos. We evaluate the implications of these case studies for directions in linguistic anthropology broadly, as well as for research on language and culture in mainland Southeast Asia. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110726626/html

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Iranian Studies, 2020

Language is "the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way" (Oxford Concise Dictionary). Identity means "the fact of being who or what a person or thing is" (Oxford Concise Dictionary). In this paper an attempt is made to explain how identity of different social groups in general and of North-East India in particular is associated with their linguistic aspects. Here, the spoken form is under consideration as it differs in case of even speakers of the same language.

A. COURSE OBJECTIVE After learning the topic of the linguistics and related disciplines, the students are able to know and understand about the close relationship between linguistics and other related disciplines. B. COURSE DESCRIPTION Linguists are not the only people interested in the study of language, anthropologists, philosophers, psychologists, and language teachers have long been interested in language, and linguistics has close ties with each of the other disciplines. These ties have been stronger at some times than others as interests change and as the influence of one discipline on another grow or diminishes. a. Linguistics and Anthropology It is clear that linguistics is linguistics is the study of language, not any particular language, but human language in general. It can be assumed that it lerns about how the language changes, how meaning is changed and others. Meanwhile, anthropology is the study of humans, past and present, that build knowledge from social sciences, biological sciences, humanities, and the natural sciences. Humans have one particular language, and the language in one group is a crucial window in culture. Linguistics and anthropology have close relationship in our daily life. The relationship between them is called as socio-cultural anthropology. The relationship between anthropology and linguistics can be seen from the following examples. Linguists usually conduct long periods of fieldwork living with people who speak the language they are studying. They examine language and the emotions; ritual and performance; language shift and multilingualism; connections between language, ethnicity, nationalism, and political systems. For example, linguists are interested in investigated the development of Baduy language; they investigate how they use their

Naučnyj rezulʹtat, 2021

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the current state of the categories-linguistic identity‖ and-national archetype‖ in correlation with the socio-cultural environment. The national and cultural values of any ethno psychological group are reflected in the language serving a real-life community of people. National archetypes are the semiotic basis of linguistic identity, which is formed within a certain socio-cultural context, an inalienable instance of the psychophysical structure of a person. It is argued that the essential characteristics of the national linguistic identity can be detected already at the level of identifying the semantic features of the language units of the utterance in discoursing. The next steps to reconstruct the linguistic personality are associated with modelling the logical-semantic structure of the utterance, due to the presence of ethnocultural traces at all levels of the subject's discourse behaviour. The discourse behaviour of an individual is the essence of his communicative activity and worldview. It was found that behavioural models, modal and nominative ways of reflecting reality are ethnoculturally determined not only by language, but also by immanent preferences in accordance with the logic, semantics and pragmatics of the communicative act. It is suggested that the verbalization of Russian identity (the magic of Russian vocabulary) is preferably carried out within the framework of contact strategies (direct means of expressing thoughts) and in correlation with the values of the national community, and the intellectual parameters of the French language are implemented in line with distant communication strategies (indirect means expressions of thought) and the priority of individual values. Prospects for the application of the method of reconstructing new knowledge in the mainstream of identifying the dominant features of a national linguistic personality in languages of different structures are outlined.

Most of the categories and concepts of general linguistics were proposed during the analysis of the surface features of the typical inflected languages, so when applied to Oriental languages (isolative, agglutinative) they caused contradictions and disputes lasted for years. Explorations in non-inflected languages ontology, in the language essence: in the syntax, in the psycholinguistic processes, in the morphology etc. may help not only to enrich the general theory of linguistics, but even revise basic rules and statements which seem to be undeniable. For example, Chinese syntax is based on the Topic-Comment structures, and the advanced understanding of this point may be viewed as conceptual basis of the one, it is just the unit which presents lexical level.

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2003

In this volume, we report new scholarship on fourteen South Asian languages, from four different language families, in a specific domain: the grammar of anaphora. This work was carried out and is represented here in terms of a unified framework that was designed to achieve cross-linguistic comparability. It was informed by one guiding principle: the convergence of two lines of investigation that are often kept distinct in linguistic inquiry today: linguistic theory, in a generative grammar framework, and linguistic typology. The former is focused on searching for explanations of the principles and parameters that underlie the cognitive competence for natural language and that are hypothesized to provide a "Universal Grammar" (UG), or underlying architecture, for all natural languages and for their learnability. The second line of investigation attempts to capture the "true facts" of cross-linguistic variation in the universal array of existent natural languages (cf. Comrie 1981). In our view, fruitful development of the science of linguistics depends on this integration (see, e.g., Subbarao-Saxena 1987a, 1987b; Subbarao 1998). That is, it requires a lively interchange between theory construction and the empirical challenge presented to it by the detailed investigation, in a principled manner, of the phenomena found in a wide variety of actual human languages. Without basic theory, the fundamental questions of the nature of the human competence for language cannot be addressed. However, in the absence of real language data, proposed answers may not be relevant to the real questions. The South Asian area is a particularly rich domain for this specific area of linguistic inquiry, as well as others. It includes several major families, of which four are represented by languages in this volume. In some cases, members of a single family are widely separated and in contact with members of others, resulting in various degrees of convergence. The existence of a South Asian linguistic area has been recognized for some time, beginning particularly with the pioneering work of Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1926, 1953), Jules Bloch (1934), and Murray Emeneau (1956), and work in that domain has been continued by other scholars (see, for example, Masica 1976, 1991 and the general account in Shapiro-Schiffman 1981). At the same time, there are significant differences and subareas, as the works in this volume clearly attest. South Asia thus represents a natural laboratory for the investigation of phenomena such as those

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, 2021

Language and culture variety is a part of our life and as a characteristic of our life. The variety occurs due to the diversity of geography and language development in our community. Language dialect differences from the view of geography or place of origin can be observed from the local language used in that areas which are influenced by the cultures surrounding it. Informal Indonesian language spoken in different places will be practiced differently in terms of pronunciation, vocabulary, and intonation. This study is qualitative research to explore the impact of place of origin to the varieties of informal Indonesian language expression of Indonesian people, specifically the students who study at Christian University of Indonesia. The differences are viewed from the language and culture they have at their home town that contribute to their language use in campus life. The sample consists of eight students from four place of origin: Ambon, Jakarta, Medan, and Palembang. They are given the questionnaires about their informal Indonesian spoken in their home town, then they are interviewed to have deeper information concerning the topic. The results showed different pronunciation and vocabulary choices in those places. The positive impact of the differences is that we are proud of cultural diversity exist in our country. It contributes to cultural diversity that Indonesia is multilingual and multicultural country. The negative impact of the differences is that differences can lead to conflict if we do not accept diversity. Conflict can lead to hostilities among different groups of societies.

The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area, 2019

Thomason and Kaufman’s 1988 book Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics had a stimulating effect on the fields of comparative and descriptive linguistics and inspired a number of studies on various topics related to language contact: the relationship between typology and language contact; the effect of language contact on a language’s genetically inherited characteristics, and work on mixed and endangered languages. More generally speaking, the increased availability of data relating to language contact has enabled widerranging discussion on the nature of language contact and its consequences (see Hickey 2010 for a more detailed account of these subjects). Within this landscape, our book lies at the crossroads of the following themes: (1) vulnerable and endangered languages, since some of the languages described here are minority languages losing ground under the linguistic influence of dominant neighbouring languages (see chapters on Cham, Wa); (2) areal typology, ...

2011

This paper discusses how the relationship between language and culture occurs by using linguistic data in Malay and Indonesian languages. It also discusses the form of lexical usage particularly in time and numeral concepts, as well as gender lexicalization in both languages. The data are analysis by using anthropologicallinguistic approach of Kramsch's theoretical framework that asserted language expresses, enlarges, and symbolizes cultural reality. The theory is affi liated with Sapir-Whorf's hypothesis that said language relativity and determinism could infl uence human world view. The outcomes of these analysis indicate that language and culture is essential in categorizing the community experience and coding certain name of the reality.

Journal of English Studies, 2014

It is now well-attested and understood that the use of English as a lingua franca is a major, if not the major, role of English in today's world. In Asia alone, it has been estimated that there are nearly one billion users of English. All ten countries comprising the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) ratified the ASEAN Charter in February 2009. The Charter officially identifies English as the sole working language of the organization.