talacowa kiso?
as someone with interests in pragmatics, one of the first things that catches me about speech communities is the ways that they greet each other, the questions like “how are Continue Reading →
Tag: sowal no ‘amis
listen to the engines
here is the beginning of some work on a new paper, about the sound of boat engines. wondering what y’all think…. listen to the engines the sound of boat engines Continue Reading →
endangered languages
“We can have rooms full of dictionaries, but if no one speaks the language, what good will it have been.” Onowa McIvor made this statement about the dominance of documentation in the indigenous language field at the recent annual conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages. I attended the conference a couple weeks ago and will talk about it in my next few posts here. Continue Reading →
