Learning the Grammar of Animacy1
Learning the Grammar of Animacy1
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学习动画语法1
DOI：
10.1111/anoc.12081
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
0.6
通讯作者：
R. W. Kimmerer
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作者：
R. W. Kimmerer
Puhpowee 翻译为使蘑菇一夜之间从地面上冒出来的力量。生物学家罗宾·基默勒（Robin Kimmerer）对这个词的存在感到震惊。对于所有的技术词汇来说，西方科学都没有这样的术语，没有任何词来承载这个谜团。你可能会认为，在所有人中，生物学家最有关于生命的话语。但在西方科学语言中，术语是用来定义我们知识的边界的。超出我们掌握范围的事物仍然未知。作为波塔瓦托米族的公民，基默勒沉浸在便利贴的世界中，其中的单词来自这种几乎失落的语言，并意外地融入了一种意想不到的动词语法和一种连接性的新世界观。
Puhpowee translates as the force that causes mushrooms to push up from the earth overnight. Biologist Robin Kimmerer was stunned that such a word existed. For all its technical vocabulary, Western science has no such term, no word to hold this mystery. You would think that biologists, of all people, would have words for life. But in Western scientific language, terminology is used to define the boundaries of our knowing. What lies beyond our grasp remains unnamed. A citizen member of the Potawatomi Nation, Kimmerer immersed herself in a Post‐it note world of words from this almost‐lost language and unexpectedly crossed into an unsuspected grammar of verbs—and a connective new worldview.