7.924, Qs: Qs: Lg & Paranoia, /wo/-> jo/, True People, Com. Tension
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Subject: 7.924, Qs: Qs: Lg & Paranoia, /wo/-> jo/, True People, Com. Tension
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Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 14:30:24 +0400
From: fortuna at glas.apc.org (Valeri Belianine)
Subject: Qs: language and paranoia
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Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 15:17:24 BST
From: bert.NET at pandora.caen.it (Bertinetto)
Subject: /wo/ -> /jo/
3)
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 01:05:08 EDT
From: TurtleSea at aol.com
Subject: "True People"
4)
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 17:04:50 +1000
From: Bert.Peeters at modlang.utas.edu.au (Bert Peeters)
Subject: Ethnic stereotypes and communicative tensions
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Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 14:30:24 +0400
From: fortuna at glas.apc.org (Valeri Belianine)
Subject: Qs: language and paranoia
Question:
Paranoia and language
Dear linguists?
Does anybody know anything about the manifestation of
paranoia in language?
I have found out that they:
- like to write with capital letters
- divide people into 'honest' and 'treacherous',
- divide people into 'friends' and 'enemies'
- like 'light' ('luz' en Espanol)
- like 'clear'
- like 'future'
- like religion ("God", 'son", 'father'0
- like 'fatherland", 'home', 'house'
- like 'heart'
- like 'I'
But what else? i need at least 5 features more.
Truly Yours, Valeri Belianine
e-mail: fortuna at glas.apc.org. :)
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Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 15:17:24 BST
From: bert.NET at pandora.caen.it (Bertinetto)
Subject: /wo/ -> /jo/
Hi everybody.
On behalf of a colleague (but also out of personal curiosity), I would
propose the following phonological problem.
A few words in the Venetian dialect show the following change: /wo/ -> /jo/.
Cf. (using the Italian spelling): "siola" for "suola", "niora" for "nuora",
"frutariol" for "frutaruol" (It. fruttivendolo).
The questions are:
1) does anybody know of such examples in any other language?
2) What is the most likely explanation?
As to the latter point, the two proposals which have been put forth are the
following:
a) dissimilation
b) analogical attraction by the far more frequent /je/ diphthong.
I shall post a summary if appropriate.
Thanks, and best regards from
Pier Marco Bertinetto
bertinet at sns.it
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Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 01:05:08 EDT
From: TurtleSea at aol.com
Subject: "True People"
At some point in my reading I came across a discussion of the use of words
meaning "people", "true people", and the like used by American Indians in
referring to their own tribes. (Names used for tribes other than the
speaker's own were based on a range of concepts -- geography, social and
physical attributes, etc.) After considerable searching, however, I have not
been able to relocate this material or any detailed study of the issue.
Could anyone refer me to articles or books addressing this topic? I.e.,
"People" and "True People" terms used by Amerindian tribes in naming their
own tribe.
Thank you,
Dale Milne
TurtleSea at aol.com
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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 17:04:50 +1000
From: Bert.Peeters at modlang.utas.edu.au (Bert Peeters)
Subject: Ethnic stereotypes and communicative tensions
Specialists of cross-cultural communication talk a lot about "stereotypes"
and "communicative tensions". Could anyone provide pointers to work on
ethnic stereotypes, esp. with regard to how speakers of French (any variety
of it) think about speakers of English (again, any variety of it), and
vice versa?
And on communicative tensions which result when speakers of French and
English meet? I know of work by Christine B=E9al (Latrobe University,
Melbourne), by W.E. Lambert et al. back in the sixties, and by
(social psychologist) Peter Ball back in the eighties. What else
is out there? I've been looking for weeks, and have exhausted just
about all the avenues that were open to me.
I'll post a summary.
Thanks for any input!
Bert Peeters
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