Anthropological Linguistics (Languages And Linguistics)
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"Words and Phrases, Unchanged for Centuries. Containing a rich glossary and in excess of 300 words and phrases, the texts demonstrate the strength of the Macedonian language through preservation. Following is a comparison of... more
Accessible and clearly written, Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology introduces readers to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the world through the contemporary theory and practice of... more
U nepoznatoj situaciji u kojoj se iznenada naaemo, tako govore mitovi svakodnevnog zivota, najprobitaenije je okrenuti se iskustvu starijih i od njih crpiti savjete za nas problem. Dakle, okrenuti se tradiciji i slijedeCi korijenje crpiti... more
No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher,... more
Presented 8 April 2016 at Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain conference at the University of Aberdeen: Coined by Ernst Håkon Jahr as a sociolinguistic ’experiment’, Norwegian Nynorsk - the constructed written language based... more
The bilum, as the traditional string bag of Papua New Guinea is called in Melanesian Pidgin and increasingly more so in English, too, is a traditional handmade string bag, mostly made by women in Papua New Guinea. They were originally... more
Sociolinguistic variation involves socially constituted categories, and is therefore shaped by the salient categories of a particular social context (e.g. Eckert 1989; Stanford & Preston 2009). Australian Indigenous societies have... more
Hokkien [ISO: nan] is a Southern Min language belonging to the Chinese branch of the Sino-Tibetan family. Hokkien is predominantly spoken in the southern Chinese provinces of Fujian, Guangdong and Hainan, as well as in Taiwan and... more
This study examines the contrastive lexical semantics of a selection of landscape terms in English and the Australian Aboriginal language, Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara. It argues that languages and cultures categorize the geographical... more
The Eskimo–Aleut languages are believed to represent a separate prehistoric migration of people from Asia. The more credible proposals on the external relations and prehistoric contacts of Eskimo–Aleut concern one or more of the language... more
El índice del presente paper es el siguiente: 1. La familia lingüística chon 2. La lengua selknam 3. Aspectos de la fonología del selknam 4. El género y la lengua selknam 4.1. Generalidades sobre el género 4.2. El género en... more
Les métaphores de la colère ont été documentées et analysées dans de nombreuses langues du monde, et ces travaux ont mis à jour leur remarqua-ble uniformité (et même leur quasi-universalité) à travers les continents. Cet article apporte... more
Libation rituals establish strong connections between the present (living beings) and the past (ancestors) as crucial components of African traditional culture and spirituality; they thus emphasise the belief in ancestors and man's... more
We are now within the one-week countdown to the SLA 2022 Updates and New Submissions deadline of Monday, February 14. Please join our keynotes Letícia Cesarino, Michel DeGraff, Angela Reyes, and Virginia Zavala in Boulder on April 7-9... more
Thèse présentée en vue de l'obtention du Doctorat en Sciences du langage Décembre 2001 Directrice de thèse : Catherine KERBRAT-ORECCHIONI Jury : Antoine AUCHLIN Sophie MOIRAND Véronique TRAVERSO Je tiens à exprimer mes chaleureux... more
A vernacular style of French spoken in informal situations of communication by the youth in Cameroon, Camfranglais is characterized by the insertion of foreign words from English, Pidgin English and, to a lesser extent, other Cameroonian... more
UNDER CONSTRUCTION - TOO MANY TYPOS - Please cite ONLY with permission "This is the text of an oral presentation made at the symposium "Altaique ou pas?", organized by Guillaume Jacques and Anton Antonov on 10 Dec 2011 in Paris.Part... more
"Language Revitalisation: Discourse, Myths and Ideologies A Critical Approach to Revitalisation Movements in Provence and Scotland This thesis seeks to explore theoretical and practical aspects of language revitalisation (LR), an... more
Co-authored with Uwe Seefloth
"1. The diversity of languages as a myth. 2. Inductive and deductive approaches to language unity and diversity. 3. The False Problem of UG: Innatism and Emergentism. 4. A note on the minimalist UG and the universality of syntax. 5. The... more
The present paper focuses on the concepts of urban and linguistic space. It considers the city as a diamesic melting pot. Graffitism is seen as a communication channel that needs to be examined in order to better understand the urban... more
This paper explores play counting systems in the Austroasiatic languages of northern Laos.
This article describes some of the social issues of phonetic accommodation among Cameroonian immigrants in Paris, through the analysis of their ideologies about the practice of whitisage, a neologism which refers, according to the... more
The hypothesis that the Basque language is genetically related to languages in the Cauca-sus region was developed in the 20th century by respected scholars including C. C. Uhlen-beck, Georges Dumézil, and René Lafon, but has recently... more
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The Eskimo–Aleut languages are believed to represent a separate prehistoric migration of people from Asia. The more credible proposals on the external relations and prehistoric contacts of Eskimo–Aleut concern one or more of the language... more
This paper describes the loss of a relative age distinction in the terms for maternal aunts and paternal uncles in several varieties of North Saami, Lule Saami and South Saami (Saamic, Uralic) spoken in Sweden and Norway. I conclude that... more
Aims: This study focuses on heritage speakers' ability to use their Arabic varieties and English in the construction of narratives of personal experience. This is critical because English, Colloquial Arabic (CA), and Standard Arabic (SA)... more
In this article, I discuss the anthropological value of focusing on ontological processes in which seemingly local, native, or indigenous people are reclassified as foreigners. Building on theories of language and time, I show, through... more
Cooperation to development in rural Africa is often a matter of handling with technologically archaic societies, where tradition has still a very high cultural value. In such societies things must be done, “as they have always been done”,... more
Este trabajo se ocupa del primer vocabulario registrado de una lengua perteneciente a la familia lingüística chon, que incluye cuatro lenguas habladas por pueblos cazadores-recolectores patagónica: el selknam y el haush en la Isla Grande... more
https://doi.org/10.1017/jlg.2021.1 This article provides a comparative overview of phonological and phonetic differences of Mukrī Kurdish dialects and their geographical distribution. Based on the examined data, four distinct dialects can... more
The Eskimo–Aleut languages are believed to represent a separate prehistoric migration of people from Asia. The more credible proposals on the external relations and prehistoric contacts of Eskimo–Aleut concern one or more of the language... more