[Lingtyp] Lingtyp Digest, Vol 54, Issue 24

[George Moroz]

I'd propose to use this movie as a nice anti-example of fieldwork research:
recording outside the house during the rain, using finger-pointing,
collecting words without the context, analyzing oscillogram without
spectrogram, messing with informants...

It is a good movie, though.

GM


pt., 29 mar 2019 o 19:47 Joo Ian <ian.joo at outlook.com> napisał(a):

> Dear David,
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> Yes, the “indigenous” language featured in the film is solely constructed
> for the film. And the film plot does indeed have some fantasy-like features
> in it. But overall, I would say that the film left me many thoughts on
> fieldwork (e. g. the relationship between the linguist and the native
> speakers), language endangerment (e. g. the experience of the last speakers
> of a dying language), and human language in general. Although I haven’t
> watched Avatar yet, I would imagine that this film is has a more
> “realistic” background than Avatar.
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> Regards,
>
> Ian
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> *From: *David Beck <dbeck at ualberta.ca>
> *Sent: *Saturday, March 30, 2019 1:41 AM
> *To: *lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org
> *Subject: *Re: [Lingtyp] Lingtyp Digest, Vol 54, Issue 24
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> I haven’t seen the movie, which may be very entertaining, but it isn’t
> about a real language.  The synopsis here
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> https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-i-dream-another-language-review-20170803-story.html
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> makes it sound like fun, but not much like reality. I suppose if Avatar is
> inspirational for ecologists, something like this could be inspiring for
> linguists.
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> Just saying.
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> David
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> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 06:08:13 +0000
> From: Joo Ian <ian.joo at outlook.com>
> To: "lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org"
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> Subject: [Lingtyp] A linguistic film: "I dream in another language
> (Sueño en otro idioma)"
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> Dear all,
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> Yesterday, I watched a Dutch-Mexican film "I dream in another language
> (Sueño en otro idioma)", which is about a dying language of Mexico. I would
> recommend it to all typologists and those doing fieldwork on minority
> languages, as the film is truly touching and inspiring, especially to us
> linguists.
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> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dream_in_Another_Language
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> Regards,
> Ian JOO (주이안)
> http://ianjoo.academia.edu
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