Aymara forms of walking: a linguistic anthropological reflection on the relation between language and motion  

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Cuelenaere, Laurence

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 33 no. 1 (2011), page 126-137.
Topik: Aymara Time/space Cognitive linguistics Phenomenology Schéma corporel
Fulltext: vol. 33 issue 1 January, 2011. p. 126-137.pdf (1.46MB)

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Based on ethnographic case studies in the Bolivian Altiplano (highlands) this article examines the relationship between language and movement. In doing so, I include three levels of analysis. I first identify two forms of analysis corresponding to cognitive linguistics and phenomenology. I derive a third level of analysis from my case studies. The richness of Aymara expression on walking manifests the need to understand the ways in which walkers exploit and suffer the world. In this regard walking involves physical displacement, knowledge of the world, and the endurance of the body. The ethnographic case-studies call for an understanding of the ways the body exploits and suffers the physical and affective constraints of walking: for example, age, traces of labor, habits, health, terrain, fatigue, boredom, and so on.

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