Translating the State: Ethnic Language Radio in the Lao PDR

Badenoch, Nathan

doi:10.1080/00472336.2018.1462888

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“…They are part of a larger practice of everyday poetics that includes chiming of prosaic nouns and verbs, elaborate expressions, evasive language, and word play. Parallelism, alliteration, assonance, and internal rhyming are extremely common in these areas of the Bit aesthetic grammar (Williams 2014), and much of this is done within a larger linguistic ecology of multilingualism (Badenoch 2020; Badenoch 2019). Redundancy through reduplication and collocation of words with similar meaning – from both the Bit lexicon, as well as from other languages they regularly use, such as Khmu, Lao and historically, other Tai languages – enable fine‐grained nuances to be communicated in an aesthetically pleasing way.…”

Section: Bit Expressives: Marked But Not Marginalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition to not seeing one (ɲii rNmaaN "to see the face"), Bit often describe the distance prosaically as bah ʔal kaaw "don't hear any news." A more elaborate phrase would make use of poetic parallelism (Badenoch 2019) bah ʔal siəN bah ʔal kaaw "don't hear any voice, don't hear any news." The use of kldeel adds a special element of sadness and concern that the prosaic phrase lacks.…”

Section: Loneliness: Listening To Longingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The emotional reaction to the absence and silence is communicated together with the physical lack of sound and sight. In addition to not seeing one ( ɲii rŋmaaŋ “to see the face”), Bit often describe the distance prosaically as bah ʔal kaaw “don’t hear any news.” A more elaborate phrase would make use of poetic parallelism (Badenoch 2019) bah ʔal siəŋ bah ʔal kaaw “don’t hear any voice, don’t hear any news.” The use of kldeel adds a special element of sadness and concern that the prosaic phrase lacks. In short, the absence of sight and sound, both part of kldeel , are indexical of a sadness, specifically a lack the warmth that one gets from interacting regularly.…”

Section: Loneliness: Listening To Longingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Silence, Cessation and Stasis: The Ethnopoetics of “Absence” in Bit Expressives

Badenoch

2021

J Linguistic Anthropol

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The study of expressive language has helped illustrate how ideophonicity operates between grammar and performance, as both syntax and poetics, across a wide range of phenomena experienced by speakers. In the Bit language, spoken in Laos and China by approximately 2,400 people, there is a rich vocabulary of expressives, or ideophones, used to depict a lack of movement, action or agency. In doing so, Bit speakers define silence in terms of sound, stillness in terms of potential or past movement, and absence through the experience of expectation or habit. It is widely recognized that silence is not simply the lack of sound, but this analysis shows how culturally specific conceptions of the meaning of silence can be represented with the marked poetic language of expressives to account for the experience of various forms of absence. As such the analysis is an exploration of how ethnopoetics and semiotic ideology intersect in the production of Bit linguistic culture. [ethnopoetics, expressives, ideophones, semiotic ideology, silence]

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Section: Bit Expressives: Marked But Not Marginalmentioning

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Section: Loneliness: Listening To Longingmentioning

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Section: Loneliness: Listening To Longingmentioning

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Silence, Cessation and Stasis: The Ethnopoetics of “Absence” in Bit Expressives

Badenoch

2021

J Linguistic Anthropol

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“…In Luang Namtha Province, where Pliya is located, every morning at 6:30 the sounding of the national anthem through the public address system marks the beginning of the daily news and announcements, including local, regional news as well as national good news of increased harvests and notifications of the visits of state officials. 13 The news is, as Nathan Badenoch (2018) shows, "delivered in the official-sounding language that the Lao government uses in formal situations, but the announcers may use any number of local varieties of Lao pronunciation". The use of the Lao language in this public context is not questioned while in upland provinces Lao is a second language for the vast majority of the population.…”

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Emerging public space in rural Laos

Stolz¹,

Petit²

2020

civilisations

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While urban settings stand at the forefront in discussions about public spaces in socialist East-and Southeast Asia, rural public spaces in the region have been hitherto largely unexplored. Drawing on two different upland cases from the northern part of Laos, this contribution identifies local vernacular public spaces on the one hand, and emerging state-connected public spaces on the other. The latter will be argued to comprise: (1) statecontrolled public places, (2) public as opposed to private land, and (3) spaces in which the collective identity of the village in relation to the nation-state is displayed. We compare the sociality in vernacular public spaces with the sociality in state-connected public spaces, giving emphasis to socio-spatial practices and sonic dimensions. The contemporary transformation of public spaces in rural upland Laos can eventually be approached through the lens of the "fragmentation of space", to quote Lefebvre's felicitous expression, and allows original insights into spatial state-making practices and local efforts (with varying success) to relate to the state.

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Gestation of State Translation Program Embedded in Liang Qichao’s “On Translation of Books” (Lùn Yì Shū 論譯書)

Gao

2021

Diverse Voices in Chinese Translation and Interpreting

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Translating the State: Ethnic Language Radio in the Lao PDR

Cited by 13 publications

References 14 publications

Silence, Cessation and Stasis: The Ethnopoetics of “Absence” in Bit Expressives

Silence, Cessation and Stasis: The Ethnopoetics of “Absence” in Bit Expressives

Emerging public space in rural Laos

Gestation of State Translation Program Embedded in Liang Qichao’s “On Translation of Books” (Lùn Yì Shū 論譯書)

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