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1. From Kaplan’s ch.11, give one example of an experimental result that showed a connection between language and thought and/or culture, and one experimental result that didn’t. -
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is an example of a result that showed a connection between
language and thought or culture. He discussed words and grammatical constructions in indigenous American languages. An example of a word is the idea of “snow”. And claimed that Eskimos have many distinct words for ‘falling snow, snow on the ground, snow packed hard like ice’ etc. whereas English has only one word for all of these things. Therefore, language can be divided up into multiple concepts in another language. Ultimately, the culture of the Eskimos had a connection with the word snow in which had many different terminologies for that specific word, and are in a way in other languages such as English
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An experiment that did not show a connection between language and culture/thought is the experiment with the Dani people of New Guinea (mola (light) and mili (dark). This experiment mentions how speakers will be sensitive to focal colours regardless of whether they happen to have words for them, and also the colours are just inherently more noticeable, so therefore it does not have a real connection with language or thought and culture.
2. Please watch the videos of the Learning Bundle on CULearn. I also recommend the optional reading by Dobrin and Berson. Bringing together the bundle, the class discussion, the reading, and any other knowledge or experience you may have, please answer the following question: in as much detail as possible, give two examples of how linguistics researchers working with indigenous communities can work with speakers rather than on speakers.
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They are able to work with speakers rather than on speakers because they are able to integrate their studies while benefiting the indigenous communities through solving problems amongst an indigenous right. For an example, a study of Australian Aboriginal languages around 1960 was conducted and wanted to solve the longstanding problem of
the genetic status of the continent’s languages, but in the continent, a political event took
place where indigenous people demands for citizenships and recognition of their cultural, linguistic and territorial sovereignty. So linguistics such as Stephen Wurm and Ken Hale played a role in mobilizing the endangered languages on the international linguistic scene in fieldwork. This fieldwork consisted of working with the indigenous communities to solve the issues while gaining knowledge of linguistic discourse and practice.
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Ethical fieldwork is another right and obligation that arose, which include respecting the multiple cultural protocols. So, working with the indigenous people with a holistic approach rectifies the ability to integrated the work without issues.
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