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An ethnolinguistic study of a native group in Mali provides a French teacher interested in teaching "civilization" some insights into techniques of cultural observation and analysis outside the usual realm of mass media and printed materials. (MSE)

It is assumed that in the case of contact languages, it is the nonverbal context of use of these languages that may be the key factor in determining the nature of each language. Contact languages, perhaps even to a greater extent than larger or more common, the so called national languages, may establish the identity of the speech communities that use them. The text presents also selected ways in which contact languages arise, adding to the types of languages known to science, such as endogenous and exogenous contact languages, a new name for the category of languages, which are isogenic contact languages.

This article examines two language ideologies that seem to act as an obstacle to the adoption of non-sexist language in France - on the one hand, the ideology of a standard language and on the other, the ideology of language as the glue that holds the nation together. A corpus of articles from French and British newspapers is analyzed using corpus linguistics methods and a CDA framework. This comparative approach allows the debate to be understood in its cultural and historical context, as well as the necessary conditions for the institutionalization of these language ideologies to be identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Ethnological and ethnolinguistic research can pose a wide range of different ethical challenges for researchers and the communities in which they work. Ethnologists and ethnolinguists study human societies from different angles to understand their cultural traits, linguistic variability, etc. Such research can advance our understanding of social groups and contribute to the production of knowledge and may even benefit certain communities. But it can also create risks for participants and communities (e.g., loss of privacy, stigmatization, persecution), and for researchers themselves (e.g., loss of access to a field area, loss of control over the research process and results). These risks and other ethical challenges, and the means to address them, deserve special attention from ethnologists and ethnolinguistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on doctoral research on the situation sociolinguistics of two regional languages, Alsatian and Catalan. It mentions each language in turn to first present the general conclusions of the original research, followed by an analysis of the current situation, with the aim of assessing the ethnolinguistic vitality of each language. It also mentions new examinations of linguistic situations have above all focused on secondary, accredited research in the case of Alsatian.

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Anthropological linguistics, and by default also anthropological pragmatics, grew as sub-disciplines of both anthropology and linguistics. “The intellectual basis for anthropological linguistics in the United States derives from Boas ([1911] 1966), whose interests and concerns led to the anthropological view of language, which is that language is an integral part of culture (…)” (Klein 2006: 296). Pragmatics enters the scene, telling the researcher how to analyse the aforementioned phenomena. Therefore, anthropological pragmatics would be responsible for equipping the researcher with tools, for it is language and language-oriented mechanisms of communication, the study of which provides a much clearer insight into cultural phenomena which often direct the use of language representing culture from both the synchronic and the diachronic point of view. “[O]ne approaches language from an anthropological view, which includes the uses of language and the uses of silence, as well as the cultural problems involved in silence and speech” (ibid.).

Drawing on the field research conducted in the Serbian community in Szigetcsép, Hungary, the paper examines interlocutors’ oral discourse on interethnic marriages. Until the Second World War, the Serbs in Hungary, rural communities in particular, mainly practised endogamy. In the post-war era, however, they tended to be among the minority groups with the highest rate of exogamic marriages. Conse­quently, the interviewees established discourse links between “interethnic marriages”, “loss of native language” and “fear of identity loss”. The analytical focus is on the interlocutors’ internal dialogism between the authoritative word of the ancestors and autobiographical assertions.

The oral corpus of recorded conversations with displaced persons from Kosovo and Metohija was formed in 2003. The transcript of a three-hour conversation with a female interlocutor originally from the environs of Suva Reka (Metohija) has been subjected to discourse analysis, an oft-used technique within linguistic anthropology. The focus of the contribution is on the interlocutor’s ways of expressing time. Her autobiographical discourse, as well as that of displaced persons from Kosovo and Metohija in general, shows that the war/bombing/displacement functions as a temporal divide, as a time marker in relation to which the past, present and future are expressed. The results of this pilot study into time expressions may be used as the starting point in studying the entire oral corpus.

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The « hyperenunciator »2 is an abstract being, the source of a viewpoint that guarantees the validity of a Thesaurus of utterances shared by the members of a community. This article aims to enrich this concept from an ethnolinguistic perspective. It compares the hyperenunciators of two distinct kinds of Thesaurus, proverbs and folk tales, via a reflection on their gender identity. Drawing on old Spanish proverbs about women, the « Tales of Mother Goose » by Charles Perrault and the Grimm brothers’ Fairy Tales, I will underline that domestic space plays a key role in this subject, that an « eco-nomy of speech » places gossip, on one hand, and proverbs and folk tales, on the other, in opposition and that there is the desire to distinguish in women’s speech between what is considered to be positive and what is considered dangerous for the house. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to study the grounds for John Rupert Firth's (1890-1960) assumption that the 1923 paper, 'The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages' by the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), would be a source of inspiration that would lead Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) to develop a new conception of meaning in terms of 'use'. Based on certain excerpts of Philosophical Investigations (1953), Firth established a filiation between ­Malinowski's two key ideas, namely the importance of the notion of 'context of situation' and the idea that language is a 'mode of action') and the main theses that Wittgenstein promoted (meaning as use, language acquisition, language as a set of games). Assessing the force of that claim will lead to clarifying the synergy of ideas that took place in the matter of pragmatics in Great Britain of the first half of the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study is conceived as a historical and ethnographic contextualization of ethno-linguistic groups in contemporary Southeastern Europe, with a comparative approach of several transborder communities from Romania and Bulgaria (Aromanians, Catholics, Lipovans/Old Believers, and Vlachs), between 1990 and 2012. I am mainly interested in (1) presenting the ethno-demographic situation and geographic distribution of ethnic groups in Romania and Bulgaria, (2) repertorying the cultural traits characteristic for homonymous ethnic groups in the two countries, and (3) synthesizing the theoretical data of current anthropological literature on the ethno-cultural variability in Southeastern Europe. In essence, my methodology compares the ethno-demographic evolution in Romania and Bulgaria (192-2011), within the legislative framework of the two countries, to map afterward the distribution of ethnic groups across Romanian and Bulgarian regions. It is on such a ground that the ethnic characters will next be interpreted as either homologous between ethno-linguistic communities bearing identical or similar ethnonyms in both countries, or as interethnic analogies due to migration, coexistence, and acculturation among the same groups, while living in common or neighboring geographical areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses the place, history, and function of systems of numeration within a variety of different African cultures as a whole, and within the continent's philosophical scene in particular, with attention given to the relations between linguistics and semantics on the one hand, and mythology and popular culture on the other. Additional themes include the history of African literature and philosophy, the place of numbers and symbols in popular culture, and language.

The article discusses the impact of linguistic practices on the feeling of regional membership, with reference to a study done in 2005 in the Alsace and Bretagne regions of France. Topics include the decline of regional languages at the same time as the development of stronger regional claims, the question of whether language serves as an important marker of regional membership, and the effect of attachment to territory as a factor in regional membership.

Comparison is an interesting marking procedure, useful because it allows a multitude of discursive effects in communication. This aspect is tremendously important for writers, in various literary genres. Although the definition of the comparison varies according to the point of view - syntactic, semantic or stylistic -, researchers agree upon classifying it into two types: a scalar comparison, which offers a quantitative perspective on the compared entities, and a non-scalar comparison, which offers a qualitative evaluation of these entities. In the present study we aim to analyze the qualitative comparison, also known as comparison of similarity or conformity, formed with the comparative morpheme comme. By the use of this morpheme, an enunciative instance - which often becomes a narrative instance within the frame of a narrative fiction - invites the receiver-interpreter to (re)build worlds in the process of reconstructing the message; these worlds are not explicitly described but, in consonance with the general orientation of the text, merely sketched or just suggested, by the sheer choice of the comparand - a landmark - with which the term to be compared, to be marked, implicitly to be evaluated (i.e. the comparee) is connected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article looks at the use of language in play rehearsals at three European theater schools. Particular attention is paid to the changing and varied use of language in the script of the play. In this case, linguistic objectivity and action engagement are not mutually exclusive. Instead, they are separate phases that add to the acting process.

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The article presents several abstracts of articles related to language and culture which were published in the June 2006 issue of the journal "Langage et Société." the abstracts include "Le dévelopment harmonieux ou non harmonieux du bilinguisme de l'enfant au sein de la famille," "Enjeux sociaux du bilinguisme à l'école," and "Contact de langues et positions subjectives."

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The lexical space of the Upper Rhine region is analyzed using a data bank of 12,566 lexical types in 126 dialect maps of volume 2 of the Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Alsace. The inventories of localities grouped in 12 areas are considered as so many open systems. Lexical structures emerge as dynamic, 'evolving' in space without ever losing their identity, for they are crossed by multidirectional lexical flows that can be observed qualitatively as well as quantitatively. In this sort of study, a linguist can appeal to systemics and to the general systems theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Autonomous Aosta Valley Region is a unique linguistic reality within the Italian Republic; in its side-valleys different languages and cultures have overlapped for centuries and are still alive today in various ways. In one of them, the Ayas Valley, Francoprovençal, Italian, and French, known and spoken to different degrees by the population, have become part of the pedagogical reality of the local pre-primary school, contributing in differentiated but complementary ways to the performance of various didactic activities. This integration of languages within the current socioaffective, psychomotor, logical, and creative experiences of the children is possible thanks to a distinctive joint planning system developed by a group of teachers who have worked in this valley for many years with great dedication and competence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents literary criticism based on the book "Langues et cultures de France et d'ailleurs - Hommage à Jean-Baptiste Martin," edited by Claudine Fréchet, focusing on the dialectology and linguistic ethnography of the cultures of France. Topics include regional languages and regionalisms of France, minority languages and extinction, and problems encountered in linguistic ethnography.