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134 Languages in Contact each other as Aboriginal Australi.docxherminaprocter
134 Languages in Contact
each other as Aboriginal Australia, China, Greece, Chile, Indonesia, and
Russia). Boroditsky illuminates the marvelously diverse ways that lan
guages and cultures shape the way we think.
In his article "Death by Monoculture," linguistic anthropologist Stephen
Pax Leonard bemoans the loss of the Polar Eskimos' language and culture, tying
it in part to global warming and, perhaps just as frustrating, a seeming lack of
concern from the very pcpulace whose culture is waning. The Polar Eskimos'
connection to the larger world via other languages, as well as through the Inter
net, is understandable, and it mirrors the desires of many people worldwide who
arc eager to start lives in new places or bring new places into their own lives.
Noc knowing the "right" language presents more than a metaphorical
barrier as James Angelos's article "Passing the Test" demonstrates. Is a re
quired proficiency in a country's official language a helpful step toward" inte
gration," or is it a passive-aggressive deterrent to undesirable immigration?
With well over 1,000 languages spoken in India, multilingualism is the
norm, yet Reshma Krishnamurthy Sharma's article "The New Language
Landscape" reflects both an anxiety to be part of a global economy and a
logistical difficulty of maintaining regional languages in the face of India's
increasing inter-regional marriages. The answer: The new generation is
learning English-the language of rhe former colonizers-exclusively. In
"Operation Mind Your Language," Pallavi Polanki sheds light on the
demand for English reachers in Afghanistan as a result of the American
presence. Indeed, the expansion of English as a global lingua franca has
become a worldwide activity-for both those who want co learn and those
who want to teach; but not without the justifiable ambivalence that Julie
Traves captures in "The Church of Please and Thank You."
As this book goes to print, there aie 6,909 livinglanguages in the world.
1his number, however, is in decline: On average, one language dies every
two weeks. At this rate, according to an article in National Geographic,
"more than half of the world's roughly 7,000 languages will vanish by the
end of rhis century alone."
Access to languages-and the wonder of human cultures rhat shape
and are shaped by chem-is increasingly available, even as that access spells,
for some languages, their imminent extinction. Global languages such as
English, and also Chinese, Russian, Spanish, and Hindi, seem to hold
greater promise than a speaker's heritage language-the mother tongue, at
lease in the present, when economic need can make cultural heritage seem
like a luxury. Resolving this conundrum that pits long-term heritage
Boroditsky "How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think?" 135
against economic exigency becomes an ethical and cultural dilemma that
we as a global community must work out together.
Works Cited
Basu, Paroma. "What Hap.
134 Languages in Contact each other as Aboriginal Australi.docxherminaprocter
134 Languages in Contact
each other as Aboriginal Australia, China, Greece, Chile, Indonesia, and
Russia). Boroditsky illuminates the marvelously diverse ways that lan
guages and cultures shape the way we think.
In his article "Death by Monoculture," linguistic anthropologist Stephen
Pax Leonard bemoans the loss of the Polar Eskimos' language and culture, tying
it in part to global warming and, perhaps just as frustrating, a seeming lack of
concern from the very pcpulace whose culture is waning. The Polar Eskimos'
connection to the larger world via other languages, as well as through the Inter
net, is understandable, and it mirrors the desires of many people worldwide who
arc eager to start lives in new places or bring new places into their own lives.
Noc knowing the "right" language presents more than a metaphorical
barrier as James Angelos's article "Passing the Test" demonstrates. Is a re
quired proficiency in a country's official language a helpful step toward" inte
gration," or is it a passive-aggressive deterrent to undesirable immigration?
With well over 1,000 languages spoken in India, multilingualism is the
norm, yet Reshma Krishnamurthy Sharma's article "The New Language
Landscape" reflects both an anxiety to be part of a global economy and a
logistical difficulty of maintaining regional languages in the face of India's
increasing inter-regional marriages. The answer: The new generation is
learning English-the language of rhe former colonizers-exclusively. In
"Operation Mind Your Language," Pallavi Polanki sheds light on the
demand for English reachers in Afghanistan as a result of the American
presence. Indeed, the expansion of English as a global lingua franca has
become a worldwide activity-for both those who want co learn and those
who want to teach; but not without the justifiable ambivalence that Julie
Traves captures in "The Church of Please and Thank You."
As this book goes to print, there aie 6,909 livinglanguages in the world.
1his number, however, is in decline: On average, one language dies every
two weeks. At this rate, according to an article in National Geographic,
"more than half of the world's roughly 7,000 languages will vanish by the
end of rhis century alone."
Access to languages-and the wonder of human cultures rhat shape
and are shaped by chem-is increasingly available, even as that access spells,
for some languages, their imminent extinction. Global languages such as
English, and also Chinese, Russian, Spanish, and Hindi, seem to hold
greater promise than a speaker's heritage language-the mother tongue, at
lease in the present, when economic need can make cultural heritage seem
like a luxury. Resolving this conundrum that pits long-term heritage
Boroditsky "How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think?" 135
against economic exigency becomes an ethical and cultural dilemma that
we as a global community must work out together.
Works Cited
Basu, Paroma. "What Hap.
The world of languages is a rich and diverse tapestry, with each language offering unique insights into human culture and cognition. Surprising similarities between unrelated languages remind us of the interconnectedness of humanity and the incredible capacity of our species to develop sophisticated communication systems. While these resemblances may not always have a clear explanation, they highlight the universality of some linguistic concepts and the enduring fascination of the study of language.
How Languages WorkAn Introduction to Language and LinguisticsSecond Ed.docxsandraa52
How Languages Work An Introduction to Language and Linguistics
Second Edition
Edited by CAROL GENETTI
Carol Genetti4
1.1 Language 1.1.1 Language and You; Language and Us
Language is an essential and ubiquitous component of our lives. To see that this statement is true for yourself, take a moment to think about your day. Cast your mind back to when you first awoke. What were your thoughts and how were they expressed?
Trace the day in your mind and try to count how many people you spoke with, even if it was just a quick “hi†or “thank you.†Did you listen to a lecture? Watch television? Talk on the phone? Make an appointment? Sing a song? All of these activities centrally involve language. Now think about what you read today. Perhaps a newspaper, pages on the Internet, email, advertisements, labels, signs, home- work assignments? Now move on to thought itself. What thoughts and ideas have passed through your mind? Have you made explicit plans, imagined conversations, debated with yourself? If you are like most people, this brief exer- cise has revealed that language is both within and around you, a constant part of your internal and external existence. Language is the primary medium which you use to interact with people and institutions in our society. Your particular use of language is also a reflection of who you are as an individual; all of us use language as a means to build and portray our identities in the world around us. We also use language to shape and interpret the great and small experi- ences of our lives.
Think about the broader world in which we live. Language is the principal means by which societies are constructed and cultures are developed. Think of the size of our soci- ety’s great libraries, and how the majority of the volumes in those vast collections (14.6 million volumes in the Harvard University Library alone) are language in its written form. The intellectual achievements of humankind are essentially embodied in language. Not only is this true of the written works that formally encapsulate our knowledge, but it is also true of the huge body of indigenous knowledge held by the speakers of thousands of languages across the globe, from the Brazilian Amazon to the Mongolian steppes. Some may argue that music and art are non-linguistic, but note that they often incorporate lan- guage, as with lyrics. Even works that do not contain language are interpreted and under- stood through verbal thought, discussion, and critical analysis. Similarly, mathematics could be argued to be non-linguistic, but again language is used to teach, understand, and interpret it.
Beyond the modern world, consider that language has been used by humans for at least 30,000 years, by thousands of groups across the globe, wherever humans have ven- tured. Speakers of each generation endow their language with their own unique mark, their own contribution, changing it in myriad subtle ways. As language passes from
SIDEBAR 1.1 You can find definit.
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1. Humans communicate with one another using a dazzling
array of languages, each differing from the next in
innumerable ways.
Do the languages we speak shape the way we see the world,
the way we think, and the way we live our lives?
Do people who speak different languages think differently
simply because they speak different languages? Does
learning new languages change the way you think? Do
polyglots think differently when speaking different
languages?
2. Most questions of whether and how language shapes
thought start with the simple observation that languages
differ from one another. And a lot!
Let's take a (very) hypothetical example. Suppose you want
to say, "Bush read Chomsky's latest book." Let's focus on
just the verb, "read." To say this sentence in English, we
have to mark the verb for tense; in this case, we have to
pronounce it like "red" and not like "reed."
3. In Indonesian you need not (in fact, you can't) alter the
verb to mark tense. In Russian you would have to alter
the verb to indicate tense and gender.
So if it was Laura Bush who did the reading, you'd use
a different form of the verb than if it was George. In
Russian you'd also have to include in the verb
information about completion.
4. So if it was Laura Bush who did the reading, you'd use a
different form of the verb than if it was George.
In Russian you'd also have to include in the verb
information about completion.
If George read only part of the book: you'd use a different
form of the verb; rather than if he'd read through the
whole book.
5. Clearly, languages require different things of their speakers. Does this,
therefore, mean that the speakers think differently about the world?
Do English, Indonesian, Russian, and Turkish speakers end up
attending to, partitioning, and remembering their experiences
differently just because they speak different languages?
For some scholars, the answer to these questions has been an obvious
yes. Just look at the way people talk, they might say. Certainly,
speakers of different languages must attend to and encode strikingly
different aspects of the world just so they can use their language
properly.
6. Scholars on the other side of the debate don't find the differences in how people
talk convincing.
All our linguistic utterances are sparse (редкий), encoding only a small part of
the information we have available. Just because English speakers don't include
the same information in their verbs that Russian and Turkish speakers do
doesn't mean that English speakers aren't paying attention to the same things.
All it means is that they're not talking about them.
It's possible that everyone thinks the same way, notices the same things, but
just talks differently.
7. Believers in cross-linguistic differences counter that everyone does not pay attention to
the same things: if everyone did, one might think it would be easy to learn to speak other
languages.
Unfortunately, learning a new language (especially one not closely related to those you
know) is never easy; it seems to require paying attention to a new set of distinctions.
Whether it's distinguishing modes of being in Spanish, evidentially in Turkish, or aspect
in Russian, learning to speak these languages requires something more than just learning
vocabulary.
It requires paying attention to the right things in the world so that you have the correct
information to include in what you say.
8. Recent research, carried out on a group of Aborigine's, in Cape York, Northern
Australia – a tribe called the Kuuk Thaayorre, produced some interesting
results; as to how they talk about space (пространство/протяжённость/место)
Instead of words like "right," "left," "forward," and "back," which, as
commonly used in English, define space relative to an observer, the Kuuk
Thaayorre, like many other Aboriginal groups, use cardinal-direction terms —
north, south, east, and west — to define space.
This is done at all scales, which means you have to say things like "There's an
ant on your southeast leg" or "Move the cup to the north northwest a little bit."
"Move the cup to the north northwest a little bit."
9. " One obvious consequence of speaking such a language is that you have to stay oriented at all times,
or else you cannot speak properly.
Therefore, the normal greeting in Kuuk Thaayorre is "Where are you going?" and the answer should
be something like " South southeast, in the middle distance."
If you don't know which way you're facing, you can't even get past "Hello."
The result is a profound difference in navigational ability and spatial knowledge between speakers of
languages that rely primarily on absolute reference frames (like Kuuk Thaayorre) and languages that
rely on relative reference frames (like English).
Therefore, speakers of languages like Kuuk Thaayorre are much better than English speakers at
staying oriented and keeping track of where they are, even in unfamiliar landscapes or inside
unfamiliar buildings
10. People's ideas of time differ across languages in other ways. For example, English speakers tend to
talk about time using horizontal spatial metaphors (e.g., "The best is ahead of us," "The worst is
behind us"), whereas Mandarin speakers have a vertical metaphor for time (e.g., the next month is the
"down month" and the last month is the "up month").
Mandarin speakers talk about time vertically more often than English speakers do, so do Mandarin
speakers think about time vertically more often than English speakers do?
Imagine this simple experiment. I stand next to you, point to a spot in space directly in front of you,
and tell you, "This spot, here, is today. Where would you put yesterday? And where would you put
tomorrow?"
When English speakers are asked to do this, they nearly always point horizontally. But Mandarin
speakers often point vertically, about seven or eight times more often than do English speakers.
11. Even basic aspects of time perception can be affected by language. For example, English
speakers prefer to talk about duration in terms of length (e.g., "That was a short talk,"
"The meeting didn't take long"), while Spanish and Greek speakers prefer to talk about
time in terms of amount, relying more on words like "much" "big", and "little" rather
than "short" and "long."
Research into such basic cognitive abilities as estimating duration shows that speakers of
different languages differ in ways predicted by the patterns of metaphors in their
language. (For example, when asked to estimate duration.
English speakers are more likely to be confused by distance information, estimating that
a line of greater length remains on the test screen for a longer period of time, whereas
Greek speakers are more likely to be confused by amount, estimating that a container
that is fuller remains longer on the screen.)
12. An important question at this point is: Are these differences caused by
language per se or by some other aspect of culture?
Of course, the lives of English, Mandarin, Greek, Spanish, and Kuuk
Thaayorre speakers differ in a myriad of ways.
How do we know that it is language itself that creates these differences
in thought and not some other aspect of their respective cultures?
13. One way to answer this question is to teach people new ways of
talking and see if that changes the way they think.
Beyond abstract or complex domains of thought like space and
time, languages also interfere in basic aspects of visual
perception — our ability to distinguish colours, for example.
Different languages divide up the colour continuum differently:
some make many more distinctions between colours than others,
and the boundaries often don't line up across languages.
14. In Russian there is no single word that covers all the colours that
English speakers call "blue." Russian makes an obligatory distinction
between light blue (goluboy) and dark blue (siniy).
Does this distinction mean that siniy blues look more different from
goluboy blues to Russian speakers? Indeed, the data say yes. Russian
speakers are quicker to distinguish two shades of blue that are called by
the different names in Russian (i.e., one being siniy and the other being
goluboy) than if the two fall into the same category.
15. For English speakers, all these shades are still designated
by the same word, "blue," and there are no comparable
differences in reaction time.
Further, the Russian advantage disappears when subjects
are asked to perform a verbal interference task (reciting a
string of digits) while making colour judgments but not
when they're asked to perform an equally difficult spatial
interference task (keeping a novel visual pattern in
memory).
16. The disappearance of the advantage when performing a verbal
task shows that language is normally involved in even
surprisingly basic perceptual judgments — and that it is
language per se that creates this difference in perception between
Russian and English speakers.
When Russian speakers are blocked from their normal access to
language by a verbal interference task, the differences between
Russian and English speakers disappear.
17. Even what might be deemed frivolous aspects of language can have far-reaching
subconscious effects on how we see the world. Take grammatical gender. In Spanish and
other Romance languages, nouns are either masculine or feminine.
In many other languages, nouns are divided into many more genders ("gender" in this
context meaning class or kind).
For example, some Australian Aboriginal languages have up to sixteen genders, including
classes of hunting weapons, canines, things that are shiny, or, in the phrase made famous
by cognitive linguist George Lakoff, "women, fire, and dangerous things."
18. What it means for a language to have grammatical gender is that words
belonging to different genders get treated differently grammatically and words
belonging to the same grammatical gender get treated the same grammatically.
Languages can require speakers to change pronouns, adjective and verb
endings, possessives, numerals, and so on, depending on the noun's gender.
For example, to say something like "my chair was old" in Russian (moy stul bil'
stariy), you'd need to make every word in the sentence agree in gender with
"chair" (stul), which is masculine in Russian. So you'd use the masculine form
of "my," "was," and "old."
19. If, instead of speaking of a chair, you were speaking of a
bed (krovat'), which is feminine in Russian, or about
your grandmother, you would use the feminine form of
"my," "was," and "old? "It turns out that it does,
according to the research carried out.
20. In fact, you can even see these effects of language; through
art, in an art gallery.
Look at some famous examples of personification in art —
the ways in which abstract entities such as death, sin,
victory, or time are given human form.
How does an artist decide whether death, say, or time
should be painted as a man or a woman?
21. It turns out that in 85 percent of such personifications,
whether a male or female figure is chosen is predicted
by the grammatical gender of the word in the artist's
native language.
For example, German painters are more likely to paint
death as a man, whereas Russian painters are more
likely to paint death as a woman.
22. The fact that even quirks (странности в поведении) of grammar, such
as grammatical gender, can affect our thinking is profound (глубокий).
I have described how languages shape the way we think about space,
time, colours, and objects.
Other studies have found effects of language on how people construe
events, reason about causality, keep track of number, understand
material substance, perceive and experience emotion, reason about
other people's minds, choose to take risks, and even in the way they
choose professions and spouses.
23. Together, all these results show that linguistic processes are pervasive
(проникающий) in most fundamental domains of thought,
unconsciously (бессознательно) shaping us from the nuts and bolts
(азы ) of cognition and perception (восприятие) to our loftiest
(отрешённый: Имеется ввиду супер высокий) abstract notions
(галантерея) and major life decisions.
Language is central to our experience of being human, and the
languages we speak profoundly shape the way we think, the way we see
the world, the way we live our lives.