In a time when over 7,000
distinct languages are spoken around the world, professors David Harrison and
Gregory Anderson navigate treacherous terrain and travel to the furthest
reaches of the globe to research forgotten and hidden languages. As colonialism
and economic unrest spread, the new generations begin to abandon their
ancestral languages, and their cultures are passively suppressed. But their
legacy is not lost thanks to Harrison and Anderson, and now amateur linguistics
can follow along as these two adventurous ethnographers observe a Kallawaya
healing ritual in Bolivia, attend a traditional ceremony in a remote village in
India, and set their sights on Siberia to document these languages before they
are lost forever. Together, Harrison and Anderson speak over twenty-five
languages, and though their mission is a serious one, they always attempt to
maintain a sense of levity as they explore how disappearing languages serve as
an indicator of the disappearing traditions and heritage of Indigenous people
everywhere. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Based
on what we have discussed in the class, what is the meaning or meanings of the
word LINGUIST?
The Linguists is a racing to
document languages on the verge of extinction. In Siberia, India, and Bolivia,
the linguists confront head-on the very forces silencing languages: racism,
humiliation, and violent economic unrest. David and Greg's journey takes them
deep into the heart of the cultures, knowledge, and communities at risk when a
language dies.
How
can a language become dead?
Is a process that affects speech
communities where the level of linguistic competence that speakers possess of a
given language variety is decreased, eventually resulting in no native or
fluent speakers of the variety. Language death may affect any language idiom,
including dialects and languages.
Language death should not be
confused with language attrition (also called language loss) which describes
the loss of proficiency in a language at the individual level.
What
would happen if a language doesn't exist anymore?
As you can see now the culture of
dialect change the way that people seek to communicate I think a way of life,
the human being by nature seek a way to understand or communicate, in my
personal opinion but never disappear many languages language.
Well I could clearly relate the part of the
movie when teachers interact with people who speak the language dead and try to
understand or just look up the meaning of the word with Psycholinguistics
because this part of linguistics spanned all components that teachers lock to
find in the dead languages
Language
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Location
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Number of speakers
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Why is it disappearing?
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bolihing
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India
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chulym
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Russia
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Shanonwiny
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Arizona
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Kallawaya
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Bolivia
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How
is this movie related to the course of Epistemology?
The subject of this course is
what has come to be called “theory of knowledge” or “epistemology.” The two
names are interchangeable in common use. (A similar pair of terms for
philosophical disciplines is ‘theory of value’ (or ‘value theory’) and the little-used
‘axiology.’) Until the nineteenth century, there had been no special term to
indicate the study of knowledge as such, even though knowledge had been studied
from the very beginning of Western philosophy. The word.
Please
relate each of the topics of Linguistics discussed in class to a part of the
movie.
