Anthropology 2250F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Bricolage, Korney Chukovsky, Swahili People
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Kisisi (our language): the story of colin and sadiki, perry gilmore. Chapter 3: lorca"s miracle: play, performance, verbal art, and creativity. Chukovsky tend to focus on children"s speech play and verbal art, including the aggressive, obscene, scatological, anti- authoritarian, and inversive elements . Sadiki and colin created their language spontaneously by playing together, instead of by organizing a dictionary and grammar. Similar to jourdan"s idea of the culture of work as the social context for slave-generated plantation pidgins, gilmore identifies the culture of play as the social context for the children"s sustained contact and place of linguistic innovation. Sadiki and colin used language as the object for play, manipulating language in all its forms. Fascination with phonological elements of language continues far beyond the acquisition of proficiency with sound. in early exchanges, the children relied heavily on sound play, repetition, onomatopoeia, and sound effects.