“Living Fossils”: The Politics of Language Preservation in Huangshan, China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Britta Ingebretson
Keyword(s):  
Language Preservation ◽  
Living Fossils ◽  
Politics Of Language

scholarly journals VARIASI DIALEKTAL BAHASA TOMUAN (DIALECTAL VARIATION OF TOMUAN LANGUAGE)

MABASAN ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-62
Author(s):  
Andi Indah Yulianti
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Analytical Methods ◽  
Language Preservation ◽  
Dialectal Variation ◽  
Central Kalimantan ◽  
The People ◽  
Source Data ◽  
Politics Of Language ◽  
The Village ◽  
Local Languages

Tomuan language is spoken by the people residing in East Kotawaringin and Lamandau district, Central Kalimantan. The problem to be answered in this research is to identify any variations of the language that appears on Tomuan language in Menthobi Raya and Bulik sub-district of Lamandau, Central Kalimantan. In general, this study aimed to identify the forms of dialectal variation that appears in the Tomuan language on those two districts. The theoretical benefits of this research expected is to provide an overview of how a variation of the language can be a differentiator for certain groups target. In addition, the practical benefits of this study, may be used as a strategic step in setting government policy politics of language and language preservation areas in Indonesia. Analysis of the data in this study is using two analytical methods, dialectometric method and lexicostatistics method sourced from the base of 200 Swades vocabulary and Culture Association Vocabulary (A, C, P, and R). The source data in this study is from local languages utterances made by people in the village of Lubuk Hiju, District Menthobi Raya, and the village of Guci in District of Bulik, Lamandau district, Central Kalimantan.

The Politics of Language in Catalunya

2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (First Serie (1) ◽  
pp. 92-110
Author(s):  
Sarah Gore ◽  
John McInnes
Keyword(s):  
Politics Of Language

PECULIARITIES OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE PRESERVATION BY THE RUSSIAN SETTLERS’ DESCENDANTS IN CHINESE REGION OF THREE RIVERS IN THE ХХ CENTURY AND AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XXI CENTURY

2020 ◽  
pp. 113-121
Author(s):  
Oleg Pustovalov
Keyword(s):  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Language Preservation ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Russian People ◽  
Research Objects ◽  
Three Rivers ◽  
The Russian Language

The territory of Trekhrechiye is the Region of Three Rivers (Sanhe, the District of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, the People's Republic of China). This territory is subject to scientific study by historians and philologists. The research objects of this article are language aspects of modern Trekhrechiye. The aim of the study is to describe language competence of the Russian settlers’ descendants, who live now in the Region of Three Rivers, that place became mass residential centre of the Russian people in the XX century. Moreover, it is important to show dynamics of the people’s competences of the Russian language throughout the entire period of the Russian presence there. The description of the language competence of the Russian settlers’ descendants of different generations is based on the results of scientific expedition to the Region of Three Rivers. The expedition took place in 2017–2018 and was undertaken by the author. It allowed the author to monitor the extent of the Russian language preservation in different generations.

scholarly journals The living fossil concept: reply to Turner

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Lidgard ◽  
Alan C. Love
Keyword(s):  
Complex Problem ◽  
Morphological Stability ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Geological Time ◽  
Problem Space ◽  
Living Fossil ◽  
Living Fossils ◽  
Tadpole Shrimps ◽  
Evolutionary Stasis

AbstractDespite the iconic roles of coelacanths, cycads, tadpole shrimps, and tuataras as taxa that demonstrate a pattern of morphological stability over geological time, their status as living fossils is contested. We responded to these controversies with a recommendation to rethink the function of the living fossil concept (Lidgard and Love in Bioscience 68:760–770, 2018). Concepts in science do useful work beyond categorizing particular items and we argued that the diverse and sometimes conflicting criteria associated with categorizing items as living fossils represent a complex problem space associated with answering a range of questions related to prolonged evolutionary stasis. Turner (Biol Philos 34:23, 2019) defends the living concept against a variety of recent skeptics, but his criticism of our approach relies on a misreading of our main argument. This misreading is instructive because it brings into view the value of three central themes for rethinking the living fossil concept—the function of concepts in biology outside of categorization, the methodological importance of distinguishing parts and wholes in conceptualizing evolutionary phenomena, and articulating diverse explanatory goals associated with these phenomena.

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