THE LINGUISTICS

THE LINGUISTICS

1.  What does the title tell you that the movie is going to be about?

Taking in account the tittle of the movie, I thought it was related with a group of people who had study and knew many languages. People who could knew many cultures and could communicate in differents communities.

2. Base don what we have discussed in the class, what is the meaning or meanings of the Word LINGUISTIC?

• Person who study linguistics / linguistics is the study of a language (sounds, syntax, lexis, semantics, pragmatics, discourse)
• Person who know many languages

3. How can a language become dead?

In my opinion, in all communities there is an older person who is responsable for teaching the language and keep alive the customs and traditions of it. When that person die, other older person take the control of the community, changing rules and all traditions. In that case, people can stop to speak the language and forget it. For that reason, the language dies too.

4. What would happen if a language doesn’t exist anymore?

When representatives of a langage die, the language dies too, so with the passage of the time, people forget that in the human history existed it. For that reason, people don’t remember the traditions and customs of it.

DURING THE MOVIE

1. After watching the tráiler, what is the movie going to be about?

Movie is about a group of people who made a study of some unknown languages like a chulym, chemehuevi, kallawaya and sora. In that investigation, they spoke with some representatives persons of each languages, because with the passage of the time it had disappeared.

2. Fill in the following chart:

LANGUAGE	LOCATION	NUMBER OF SPEAKERS	WHY IS IT DISAPPEARIG?
Chulym	Siberia	9	Russin is the killer language
Sora	India	10
Kallawaya	Bolivia	3
Chemehuevi	Arizona	5

AFTER MOVIE ACTIVITIES

* Semantics: When Linguistics studied about the four languages, they found a lot of words with different meaning.

* Phonetics: When linguistics tried to identify the pronuntiation of some words. Correct pronuntiation.

* Phonology: When representatives of the language produced some sounds until complete a word.

* Syntax: Speakers did't have rules in order to make sentences. They only put together words until make a sentence. 

* Semantics: Is the study of language meaning, it was the intention that linguistics had in relation with that investigation, the language meaning of them. In all language there were a lot of words with different meanings too. 

* Sociolinguistics: the relationship between society and language, taking in account the four communities  has your own language and this language is unic in this place, people used this language to communicate with others and in every language people can use differnet words  to produce a meaning.

3. Answer ONE of the following questions:

• Why should we care if Chulym or Chemehuevi or Kallawaya survive? Would you feel the same way if English or your native language were on the verge of extinction?

In my opinion, those languages are unknow by the world. Language which for many years communities achieved to communicate, transmitted their knowledge and kept alive their customs. If the language disappears, the same culture will disappear too and people will use it not anymore.

In the case of spanish or english, I think those languages are the most important in the world, there are many speakers of them and people every day teach more things about them, for that reason, I think is difficult people stop talking or using the same. 

Nowdays families have kept alive these languages ​​from generation to generation and today we find more number of foreign people wanting to learn English, and we hispanics speakers wanting to learn English.