THE LINGUISTS

Pre - Movie Activity

1. What does the title tell you that this movie is going to be about?

The title of this movie maybe is related to some studies of language in different contries by expert in this area of knowledge.

2. Based on what we have discussed in the class, what is the meaning or meanings of the word LINGUIST?

Linguist: is a linguistics expert,  somebadody who speaks several language, language student.

3. How can a language become dead?

A language become dead when most of the people that use this language don´t teach it to younger people, also when the same people that has the same culture doesn´t have the interest to learn more about the language, traditions, story telling and more related to the language. Other reason can be the influence and use of a second language for in case of indigenous in some case they can speak more Spanish than their own language maybe these are some reason that participate in the death of a language.

        4. What at would happen if a language doesn´t exist anymore?

If a language doesn´t exist anymore a group of people lost part of their culture, they lost part of their own identity, they also can lost some tradition that is important part of a society.

DURING THE MOVIE

1.What is the movie going to be about?

The movie is related to a pair of professional in linguistics that make studies of different possible dead languages in some part of the world. They are searching with the help of people that know and use these language in their clan or tribe, but they had some little troubles because peoplo who knows these language are very older, or there are a few of them and some case are dead. Finallly they can found some people that helped them to know some words for example numbers and part of the body and they can made their work.

•  Sora is spoken in India. People who know this language are very few because the extintion of their tribe cause the violence and the natural death.10 people talk in Sora.
• Kalawaya is spoken in Bolivia. This language is desappearing because the influence of other language including Spanish and foreing languagE, also because there a few people that use it.2 or 4 people use Kalawaya.
• Chumehuevi, it is spoken in Arizona USA. This is a language from India it is desappearing because they have to talk in their second language that is English it is spoken by a family of 5 members.
• Chulym, it is spoken in Russia. This language is desappearing because people who talk it are very older and for some of them is very difficult to communicate the language and also they are a few in this country.Chulym is spoken by 9 people.

AFTER THE MOVIE

1. How is this movie related to the course of Epistemology?

The movie show about culture, language, and traditions these are part of the essential identity of a society, this is their own knowledge and knowledge is the goal of Epistemology. In this case the movie is focus on how people can communicate knowledge by the time through the language, also show many and different language that tribe use in past but are disappearing because the influence of new language, natural death, because young people don´t have interest to learn about language. All of these things are related to Epistemology all of this has relation with knowledge and how pass to others.

2. Please relate each of the topics of Linguistics discussed in class to a part of the movie.

Some topics that are seemed in Epistemology have relation to the movie for example in sociolinguistics how people have their own language in tribes and how the influence of society can affect the use is these languages, with phonetic and morphology for example have relation when in the movie the researchers are looking for language and how are the alphabet, how are easy words for example part of the body and have relation with Syntax in the moment of the search about how can they say some basic sentences in these languages. 
A critical stage in language death  is reached when children stop learning the language. Discuss the kinds of conditions that would make children want or not want to learn a language spoken by their parents or grandparents.

One of the causes of dead languages is the indifference to learn  the mother language in case for example of tribes, children don´t use their own language to communicate between them, they have influences from second language for example here in Colombia Spanish so they lost part of the culture of these town or tribes. This problem happen in Palenque-Bolivar where young people are losing their language and also traditions and culture, but they notice this problem and they prepared and applied solutions for example that young people and children study the language, celebrate some festival, they use again storytelling and in these way they are recovering their language

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Applied Linguistic

1 what is applied linguistics?

• "It is understood as an open field, in which those inhabiliting or passing through simply show a common commiment to the potential value of dialogue with people who are different"(Rampton 1997:14)

• "Applied linguistics ( is now) a cover term for sizeable group of semi-autonomous disciplines, each dividing its parentage and allegiances between the formal study of lenguage and other relevants fields, and each working to develop its own methodologies and principles" (Spolsky 2005: 36)

An introducti9on to Applied Linguistics: From Practice to Theory by Alan Davies

• "Applied linguistics the academic discipline concerned with the relation of knowledge about language to decision making in the real world". 

Applied Linguistics by Guy Cook

• Applied linguistic concerned to how use knowledge through language, language as a mean to communicate opinions, point of view, politics messages and anothers, it means that applied linguistics has subdivisions that study language and its uses according to the environment and how people practice in many and different situation.

3. Areas of Applied Linguistics

The areas of Applied Linguistics are:

1. Language and education: Those are includes First-language education when child studies their home language or languages; additional-language education that is divided into second-language education and foreing-language education. Clinical linguistics, language testing.
2. Language, work and law: This area include workplace communication the study of how language is used in workpalce. language planing the making of decision, often supported by legislation, forensic linguistics the deployment of linguistic evidence in criminal and other legal investigation.
3. Language, information and effect: this area includes Literary stylistics, Critical Discourse Analysis(CDA), Translation and interpretation, Information design, typography and lexicography.

Applied Linguistics By Guy Cook