In this talk I argue that culture is causally implicated in the construction of human grammars and languages. I define culture partially as a set of shared, ranked values. The talk will draw on data from Piraha, a language of the Brazilian Amazon, as well as ideas from my forthcoming University of Chicago Press book, Dark Matter of the Mind: The Apperceptive Shaping of our Words and World, as well as Language: The Cultural Tool. |
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Daniel L. Everett holds a ScD in Linguistics from the Universidade Estadual in Campinas, where he served as professor of linguistics. He has held appointments at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Manchester, UK, and Illinois State University. Since 2010 he is the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University in Waltham, MA. Everett has lived in the Amazonian jungle for nearly eight out of the last thirty years, studying more than a dozen Amazonian languages. He has published more than 100 scientific articles and eight books, including Don't sleep there are snakes: life and language in the Amazonian jungle and Language: The Cultural Tool. He is currently working on Dark Matter of the Mind for the University of Chicago Press and How Language Began, for W.W. Norton. A documentary about his life and work, The Grammar of Happiness, was released in 2012.内容:
In this seminar we briefly examine the history of studies of language and culture, from Sapir and Boas to Jakobson, Silverstein, and others. Following this historical overview, we define “culture” and look at evidence for the “interactional instinct” among humans and how interactions in conversation, discourses, and sentences can interact with and be shaped by culture. Methods for the study of each in the field are discussed, following Sakel and Everett 2012. Some preliminary results are then discussed from English, Piraha, and Wari.時間割: 12:30 受付開始