Building on the work of Joel Sherzer, this article explores the ways in which a woman creates verbal art in Chatino by narrating a false accusation against her. The narrative contains parallelism, repetition, and narrative manipulations through which verbal art is created (Sherzer 2002 ). The narrator, Celia, is a woman who has an amazing capacity to argue and curse in Chatino, which has repercussions for her in the community. She demonstrates the arts of swearing, cursing, and humor in this narrative. I show that swearing and cursing share interesting structural features with ritual speech and political oratory (H. Cruz 2014, 2017).
In August 2018 a retreat in Quechee, Vermont, brought together computer scientists specializing in natural language processing, linguists, native speakers, and endangered language activists under one roof. During the retreat, participants discussed ways to utilize the latest advances in Automatic Speech Recognition, especially neural networks, to transcribe endangered languages and tackle the difficulties of transcribing natural language, addressing what is known as "the bottle neck" of language transcription. In a relaxed environment where work was mixed with fun, everyone who participated became friends quickly and interacted with collegiality, exhibiting great potential for future collaborations. BackgroundAutomatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is a burgeoning technology with near limitless potential. Voice recognition, which was once considered science fiction, is now commonplace: Alexa, Siri, and OK Google live on countertops and bedside tables in our homes. Nevertheless, this technology has been limited to major, dominant languages such as English, German, and Spanish.
Pointing with the chin is a practice attested worldwide: it is an effective and highly recognizable device for re-orienting the attention of the addressee. For the chin point to be observed, the addressee must attend carefully to the movements of the sender’s head. This demand comes into conflict with the politeness norms of many cultures, since these often require conversationalists to avoid meeting the gaze of their interlocutor, and can require them to look away from their interlocutor’s face and head. In this paper we explore how the chin point is successfully used in just such a culture, among the Chatino indigenous group of Oaxaca, Mexico. We analyze interactions between multiple dyads of Chatino speakers, examining how senders invite visual attention to the pointing gesture, and how addressees signal that attention, while both participants avoid stretches of mutual gaze. We find that in the Chatino context, the senior (or higher-status) party to the conversation is highly consistent in training their gaze away from their interlocutor. This allows their interlocutor to give visual attention to their face without the risk of meeting the gaze of a higher-status sender, and facilitates close attention to head movements including the chin point.Abstracts in Spanish and Quiahije Chatino are published as appendices.Se incluyen como apéndices resúmenes en español y en el chatino de San Juan Quiahije.SonG ktyiC reC inH, ngyaqC skaE ktyiC noE ndaH sonB naF ngaJ noI ngyaqC loE ktyiC reC, ngyaqC ranF chaqE xlyaK qoE chaqF jnyaJ noA ndywiqA renqA KchinA KyqyaC.
published by University press of colorado 5589 arapahoe avenue, suite 206c boulder, colorado 80303 all rights reserved printed in the United states of americaThe University press of colorado is a proud member of The association of american University presses.The University press of colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by adams state University, colorado state University, fort Lewis college, Metropolitan state University of denver, regis University, University of colorado, University of northern colorado, Utah state University, and Western state colorado University.∞ This paper meets the requirements of the ansi/niso Z39.48-1992 (permanence of paper).isbn: 978-1-60732-571-0 (cloth) isbn: 978-1-60732-659-5 (paperback) isbn: 978-1-60732-572-7 (ebook) Library of congress cataloging-in-publication data names: armstrong-fumero, fernando, editor. | Hoil gutierrez, Julio, editor. title: Legacies of space and intangible heritage : archaeology, ethnohistory, and the politics of cultural continuity in the americas / edited by fernando armstrong-fumero and Julio Hoil gutierrez. description: boulder : University press of colorado, [2017] | includes bibliographical references and index. identifiers: Lccn 2016056647| isbn 9781607325710 (cloth) | isbn 9781607326595 (pbk) | isbn 9781607325727 (ebook) subjects: LcsH: cultural landscapes-america-case studies. | cultural property-protectionamerica-case studies. | cultural property-america-Management-case studies. | Historic sites-conservation and restoration-america-case studies. | Historic sites-americaManagement-case studies. classification: Lcc gf500 .L44 2017 | ddc 973-dc23 Lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016056647 an electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. The open access isbn for the pdf version of this book is 978-1-60732-700-4; for the epUb version the open access isbn is 978-1-60732-720-2. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. front-cover photographs: taperinha plantation (top), cavern of the painted rock, Monte alegre (bottom), courtesy of anna c. roosevelt. Whether on the scale of a household, of a community, or of a much larger regional environment, spaces of human habitation are both historical records of our past and a key element in reproducing the knowledge and values that define our lives in the present. This process of cultural reproduction can be endangered when migration, displacement, or changes in property regimes limit communities' access to sites where they have important historical connections. around the world, formal legal statutes, grassroots organizations, and local acts of resistance can play different roles in reasserting these connections between people and place. accordingly, the claims that contemporary stakeholders make on archaeological site...
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