[SEELA NGS] морск ая свинка

[anne marie devlin]

WE need to get away from the Saussurian view of word and meaning as fixed and move on maybe to a Bakhtinian view.  His concept of chronotope illustrates perfectly the significant impact of time and space on meaning.

AMD
 
> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:19:16 +0100
> From: john at RUSLAN.CO.UK
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] морская свинка
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> 
> My kids' guinea pigs had to come indoors whenever we had a cold winter. In 
> Alaska these must be porpoises. Perhaps the locals didn't have a copy of 
> Ozhegov handy to check whether it should be svini or svinki?
> John Langran
> www.ruslan.co.uk
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> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alla N. Baranovsky" <allab_1983 at YAHOO.COM>
> To: <SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 11:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] морская свинка
> 
> 
> "морская св
> Hello Sarah,
> 
> "морская свинка" is actually a guinea pig. Hope this helps!
> 
> -Alla
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Sarah Hurst <sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET>
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Sent: Tue, July 20, 2010 5:34:31 PM
> Subject: [SEELANGS] морская свинка
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> 
> I’m working with a translation of an early 19th-century document in which 
> the
> way in which the months were characterized by Alaska Natives is described. 
> July
> is said to be the month when “морские свинки плодятся”. The translator has 
> said
> this means when “dolphins give birth”. Does this refer to dolphins?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> Sarah Hurst
> 
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