RE: [xmca] FW: Language and Culture

... Also, Wikipedia article "Pirahã people"
provides a bunch of quite relevant articles, fyi:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_people#References

--- "Hallam,Teresa A" <thallam@uakron.edu> wrote:

> You may be interested in a blog posting on Dan
> Everett and the Piraha in the New Yorker. It
> contains links to the slide show, his most
> important paper, responses and discussion of
> his paper, and a segment from an NPR Weekend
> Edition. The link to the blog posting is:
>
>
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004387.html
>
> Teresa Hallam
> thallam@uakron.edu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu
> [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On Behalf
> Of Mike Cole
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 10:26 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: Re: [xmca] FW: Language and Culture
>
> I am trying to get the whole article available,
> David. So far, not successfully. There are also
> important articles in academic journals. I have
> written about Gordon's work on number, but what
> this article makes clear is that he was a tiny
> part of a much larger, much more important
> picture.
> If anyone can get the electronic version to
> distribute, please do!!
> mike
>
> On 4/16/07, David Preiss <davidpreiss@uc.cl>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Peter et al,
> > How great you and Mike fwed this. I read the
> article and it is amazing.
> > There
> > are three parts I loved the most: first, the
> depiction of the
> > intellectual and personal biography of
> Everett. What an unusual and
> > carismatic chracter. He is an outsider enough
> to challenge the givens
> > of American cog sci an has the training
> needed to do so. Everett
> > stroke me as a new romantic in an unromantic
> science. And, second, I
> > loved the way the journalist depicted the
> researcher that came "down
> > there" to test Chomsky´s hypotheses and how
> evident was the whole
> > experimental procedure was so alien to the
> culture that was of no use
> > there. Last but not least, I loved the
> comeback of Sapir and how
> > fitting was Everett depictions of the Piraha
> to the thinking of
> > contemporary cultural psychologists such as
> Tomasello and Mike
> > himself. There are many issues there that can
> be nicely framed in a
> > CHAT perspective- Thanks to the New Yorker
> for being there for al of
> > us!
> > David
> >
> > Peter Smagorinsky escribió:
> > > a colleague reports:
> > >
> > >
> > > Dear Colleagues,
> > >
> > > I recommend to you a recent article in The
> New Yorker about peoples
> > living
> > > in the Amazon whose language seems to defy
> Chomsky's ideas that all
> > > languages follow certain structural
> features (universal grammar). A
> > > linguist Dan Everett who has lived with the
> Piraha off and on for
> > > many
> > years
> > > writes that their language which is
> described as sounding like "a
> > profusion
> > > of exotic birds, a melodic chattering
> scarcely discernible, to the
> > > uninitiated, as human speech" does not
> follow Chomsky's universal
> > grammar.
> > > The article is very engaging and might be
> useful in stimulating
> > > student discussion of the relationship
> between language and culture.
> > >
> > > Look for "The Interpreter" by John
> Colapinto in the April 16th New
> > Yorker
> > > magazine.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Professor Michelle Commeyras
> > > Department of Language and Literacy
> Education University of Georgia
> > > 706-542-2718
> > > pulane@uga.edu (currently being forwarded
> to pulane@gmail.com)
> > > http://www.coe.uga.edu/lle/clinic/
> > >
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> > --
> > David D. Preiss Ph.D.
> > Profesor Auxiliar / Assistant Professor
> Pontificia Universidad
> > Católica de Chile Escuela de Psicología.
> > Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860.
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> >
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