The integration of language and society

这个项目旨在寻找社会和生活方式差异与语言结构之间的联系。所有的人类社会都表现出普遍的相似性，所有的语言都有反复出现的特征。该项目将社会和语言视为一个整体，将研究巴布亚新几内亚、非洲、东亚、亚马逊和澳大利亚不同自然和社会环境中的相关群体。归纳概括社会和语言参数之间的关联（例如，与铰接亲属系统和社会等级有关的不同称呼技术）旨在提供对人类动态的洞察。研究结果应有利于文化意识、语言教学、振兴和了解多元文化情况的方案。

This project aims to seek associations between social and life-style differences and language structure. All human societies show pervasive similarities and all languages share recurrent features. Viewing society and language as an integrated whole, the project will study related groups in contrasting physical and social environments in PNG, Africa, East Asia, Amazonia and Australia. Inductive generalisations about associations between societal and language parameters (e.g. varying techniques of address relating to articulated kin systems and social hierarchy) aim to provide insight into the human dynamic. Findings should benefit programmes for cultural awareness, language teaching and revitalisation and understanding of multicultural situations.