Preserving Endangered Knowledge in a Dictionary: The Case of Ket

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Anthropological Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-04-02 DOI:10.1353/anl.2019.0012

E. Kotorova, A. Nefedov

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Abstract

Abstract:Describing culture-specific vocabulary is a rather challenging part of lexicographic work, especially in the case of languages considered to be endangered. As a rule, such languages are understudied and not sufficiently documented, which greatly complicates the presentation of ethnocultural realia in a dictionary. We describe the main problems related to presenting ethnocultural material encountered in the course of making the Comprehensive Dictionary of Ket, a highly endangered Yeniseian language. They include cultural differences in categorization of extralinguistic reality, the presentation of ethnocultural information in a dictionary entry, and the loss of ethnocultural knowledge in the language community.

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在字典中保存濒危知识：以科特为例

摘要：描述特定文化的词汇是词典编纂工作中一个相当具有挑战性的部分，尤其是在被认为是濒危语言的情况下。通常，这类语言研究不足，文献记载不足，这使词典中民族文化真实性的表述极为复杂。我们描述了在制作高度濒危的叶尼塞语《科特语综合词典》的过程中遇到的与呈现民族文化材料有关的主要问题。它们包括语言外现实分类中的文化差异，词典条目中民族文化信息的呈现，以及语言社区中民族文化知识的丧失。

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Anthropological Linguistics Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Anthropological Linguistics, a quarterly journal founded in 1959, provides a forum for the full range of scholarly study of the languages and cultures of the peoples of the world, especially the native peoples of the Americas. Embracing the field of language and culture broadly defined, the editors welcome articles and research reports addressing cultural, historical, and philological aspects of linguistic study, including analyses of texts and discourse; studies of semantic systems and cultural classifications; onomastic studies; ethnohistorical papers that draw significantly on linguistic data; studies of linguistic prehistory and genetic classification.