{"title":"Manipulation in late life","authors":"Nico Nassenstein","doi":"10.1075/IJOLC.00015.NAS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IJOLC.00015.NAS","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 While youth language constitutes a well-researched field of study, the linguistic manipulations of old people\u0000 remain understudied. In an innovative approach, the present paper therefore looks at confusing and allegedly unintelligible\u0000 narratives and conscious linguistic manipulations, silliness and concealing strategies in language as employed by elderly speakers\u0000 of Kinyabwisha, Kinande, Kihunde and Kiswahili in Eastern DR Congo. A secret cursing register among Banyabwisha, often accompanied\u0000 by practices of spitting, is analyzed; I also discuss elderly speakers’ confusing stories narrated to younger people, the use of\u0000 secret modal particles that are restricted to people of old age, and finally I discuss the strategic inclusion of silliness in old\u0000 speakers’ utterances. All these are analyzed in a theoretical framework of the secret agency and power in language use that mark\u0000 the agency and wittiness of the elderly in Eastern Congo. With this first overview of elderly speakers’ language manipulations I\u0000 aim to show that linguistic manipulation is not necessarily age-related, and that concealment strategies in language can occur as\u0000 agentive and powerful means of social differentiation in later life as well. This preliminary introduction furthermore suggests a\u0000 strong focus on silliness in linguistic analysis (as also found in Kuipers 2007; Storch 2015, 2017).","PeriodicalId":37349,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language and Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43797683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A culture of secrecy","authors":"L. Ciucci","doi":"10.1075/IJOLC.00021.CIU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IJOLC.00021.CIU","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper aims at discussing some aspects of the secrecy characterizing sacred texts by the Ayoreo, a Zamucoan\u0000 population of the Boreal Chaco in South America, from a linguistic perspective. The magic power exerted by words in Ayoreo\u0000 traditional culture is the reason why holy texts are kept secret, and this makes it difficult to provide a complete linguistic\u0000 documentation of Ayoreo ‘hidden’ narratives and ritual formulas. After having outlined etiological myths, I will show that\u0000 language not only can exert a magic power, but that grammar itself, and specifically linguistic gender, has played a role in the\u0000 development of these sacred narratives. Finally, I will compare some elements of Ayoreo culture with lexical data from extinct Old\u0000 Zamuco, the most conservative language of the family, in order to show that the populations speaking these languages share the\u0000 same cultural background.","PeriodicalId":37349,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language and Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47799335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creativity in Language","authors":"P. Ricoeur","doi":"10.5840/PHILTODAY197317231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/PHILTODAY197317231","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37349,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language and Culture","volume":"116 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1973-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71113199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Conceptualization of ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Ugly’ across Languages and Cultures","authors":"","doi":"10.1075/ijolc.8.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ijolc.8.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37349,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Language and Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58670650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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