International audience Museums are places for education, but they can also offer opportunities for cross-cultural discovery. With a focus on enhancing the impact of our own research, this paper describes the experience of mounting an exhibition at the Musée d’Ethnographie de Bordeaux on the theme Vo...

Language Anthropology: Speech, Migration Linguistic ideologies Cécile Canut, Professor of Universities (CERLIS, Paris-Descartes University) Area of Speciality: sociolinguistic, anthropology of language. Following our theoretical exploration of Anglo-Saxon and Canadian linguistic anthropology approac...

Communicative interactions in international negotiations on cultural property not only provide information about the emergence and proliferation of arguments, rhetorics, and registers, but also permit valuable insights into actors’ positions, strategies and alliances. They significantly influence lo...

using a wide range of new data not yet explored on each constituency in 17 European countries, this long-term comparative analysis describes the territoriality of voter turnout and voting for political parties, as well as their evolution, since the mid-nineteenth century, from highly territorialised...

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On the traces of Vinigi L. Grottanelli, who led the Italian Ethenological Mission of Ghana from 1954 to 1977, Mariano Pavanello gathers, in poisoned Papaye, Tests on the company akan des Nzema, among which he resided several times from 1989 to 2013, for his investigations. In his introduction to the...

In order to present the phonlibrary of the Mediterranean House of Human Sciences in Aix-en-Provence and its collections, the authors return to its history, meeting three distinct disciplinary components: history, ethnolingualism and anthropology. They discuss the context in which the sound archives...

This article presents a range of religious festivals celebrated by the Portuguese community in Montreal. These festivals present important issues of intergenerational transmission and are one of the main aspects of the definition of the ethno-linguistic and cultural identity of the group. The commun...

The aim of this article is to carry out a general review of the field of language attitudes and, in particular, their applications in foreign language teaching. It starts with a disciplinary location of language attitudes, taking into account the main authors and theoretical lines. It also looks at...

Bourdieu’s interest in the social uses of language has never been lost. From his first (unpublished) work on Saussure to the Pascalian Meditations, to his major work, what he means, he has not only engaged in a critical dialogue with linguists, but also sketched out what a sociolinguistic or sociolo...

From the perspective of the Anthropological and Exploratory Language, the article proposes, by means of an empirical conceptual investigation, a nearby communication practices of Quechua-Bolivians indigenous migrants who live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The question that guides the journey is whethe...

This memory proposes the study of the concept of work as designed in Ouvéa, New Caledonia, and as it arises through female, daily and customary practices. These practices have been related to the time scale, more specifically to the different time scales within which they take place and make sense....

La Fondation Martine Aublet, sous l’égide de la Fondation de France, offre, pour l’année universitaire 2015-2016, une douzaine de bourses de recherche doctorale à des étudiants inscrits en troisième cycle dans un établissement d’enseignement supérieur français ou en co-tutelle avec une université ét...

The article performs the analysis of the concept of mother through the cognitive questionnaire methodology developed by Jerzy Bartmiński, pioneer of Polish ethnolinguistics. According to the methodology only one open question is asked to respondents: „What do you think is the essence of the true X?“...

Ethnolinguistics deals with collective identities and reality-interpreting narratives. Collective identity (beliefs, values, and their symbolisations shared by a community) is defined as a mental construct, access to which can be obtained through complementary and linguistically “externalised” image...

The article examines the expression of a person living in the area of the Southern South Aukštaitian, describing the appearance and physical characteristics, features of the character and temper, social status and relationships based on the material in the two-volume Comprehensive Dictionary of the...

The study consists of four parts. The first part is devoted to the beginnings of cultural linguistics in Poland, connected with the Wrocław-based programme for research on Polish national culture, the emergence of the “Language and Culture” research network (and a publication series with the same ti...

A brief historical outline of linguistics since its inception as a scientific discipline in the 19th century is presented and possible points of contact between the two disciplines are discussed: anthropology and linguistics. Finally, there is a brief historical overview of the development of lingui...

ABSTRACT: This article investigates the reaction, on Twitter, to Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation announcement. Specifically, this is a qualitative study in linguistic anthropology of how memes and hashtags circulated on Twitter between the day of the announcement of said resignation and the Pope’s l...

The knowledge of cultivation and the methods of treating and solving pest problems naturally without neglecting the local culture has been an inseparable aspect of Balinese agricultural life, which is known for its irrigation system called subak. This study aims to examine agricultural scripture nam...

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p><strong>Abstract</strong> – This study analyzes differences and apparent similarities between two corpora of compliments elicited in two different Italian towns, Novara and Grottaglie. After a short introduction on the speech a...

The semantics of the word "blagonadezhnyy" ('trustworthy') is structured in the article taking into account its current use. The research is conducted using the texts of newspaper subcorpus of the National Corpus of the Russian Language. The analysis of the word compatibility with the use of the met...

This essay reviews the following works: The Ch’ol Maya of Chiapas. Edited by Karen Bassie-Sweet, with Robert M. Laughlin, Nicholas A. Hopkins, and Andrés Brizuela Casimir. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 251. $45.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780806147024. Wellness beyond Words: Maya Com...

Livestock is one of the activities of the traditional subsistence economy in the Jbala region. Nevertheless, socio-economic changes taking place in Northwestern Morocco are displacing this activity and along with it, the rich vocabulary related to it. This research discusses a small corpus of lexico...

This document summarises and reflects on the fundamental concepts of Joel Sherzer’s theoretical methodological proposal, with two disciplinary perspectives converging: linguistics and anthropology, anchored in a descriptive and interpretative methodology of the social nature of speech, through which...