Announcement Linguistics in the Pub Tuesday June 14th

[Peter Austin]

Wish I could be there -- looks like an interesting discussion topic.

There is a recently published book (OUP, 2010) on what seems to be a new
sub-domain of this area, namely Ethno-ornithology:

*'Birds of the Great Andamanese*'
Satish Pande and Anvita Abbi

There is some information on the book here:
http://www.hrelp.org/events/elw2011/booklaunch.html

See also web links at the bottom of this page.

Best,
Peter

On 26 May 2011 03:31, Ruth Singer <rsinger at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

> Announcement
>
> Linguistics in the Pub (LIP) June 2011
> Organised by RNLD http://www.rnld.org
>
> Topic: Ethnobiology in Language Documentation
> Discussion led by Gwen Hyslop, Research Centre for Linguistic
> Typology, La Trobe University
>
> Ethnobiology, as a discipline, is generally concerned with the set of
> relationships that a given society has with its plants and animals. As
> speakers of endangered languages lose their traditional connections
> with their surroundings, we also very quickly lose the ethnobotanical
> knowledge that was represented in that language. As linguists engaged
> in language documentation, often with communities who have vastly
> different ethnobiological knowledge and practices than we have, we are
> in a unique position to document ethnobiology as part of language
> documentation. The question, though, is how we can do this as
> linguists?
>
> Background readings
> Berlin, Brent. 1992. Ethnobiological Classification: Principles of
> Categorization of Plants and Animals in Traditional
> Societies.Princeton: Princeton University Press.
>
> Bright, Jane, and William Bright.  1965.  Semantic structures in
> Northwestern California and the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. American
> Anthropologist 67:249-58.  (Special issue:  E.A. Hammel, ed., Formal
> Semantic Analysis).
>
> Brown, C. H. 1984.  Language and Living Things:  Uniformities in Folk
> Classification and Naming.
>
> Hunn, Eugene, and David French.  1984.  Alternative to taxonomic
> hierarchy:  the Sahaptin case. Journal of Ethnobiology4:73-92.  Also
> in Case Studies in Ethnobotany, Paul E. Minnis (ed.), pp. 118-139.
>
> Rea, Amadeo M. 1998.  Folk Mammology of the Northern Pimans.
> University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
>
> Si, Aung. 2011. Biology in Language Documentation. The Australia
> National University, ms.
>
> Turner, Nancy. 2000.  General Plant Categories in Thompson
> (Nlaka'pamux) and Lillooet (Stl'atrimx), Two Interior Salish Languages
> of British Columbia.  In Case Studies in Ethnobotany, Paul E. Minnis
> (ed.), pp. 88-115.
>
> Selected readings will be made available through the Events page of
> the RNLD website
>
> Date:      Tuesday 14th June
> Time:      7:00 pm
> Venue:    Upstairs room, Prince Alfred Hotel,
> 191 Grattan St, Carlton
> (corner of Bouverie St)
> ph ‪(03) 9347-3033‬
>
> Food and drinks available at the venue.
>
> Contact  Ruth Singer if you have any questions rsinger at unimelb.edu.au
>
> --
> Ruth Singer
> ARC Research Fellow
> Linguistics Program
> School of Languages and Linguistics
> Faculty of Arts
> University of Melbourne 3010
> http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/profiles/singer/
>



-- 
Prof Peter K. Austin
Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics
Department of Linguistics, SOAS
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
United Kingdom

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