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Linguistic fieldwork: documenting the West Armenian varieties of rural Anatolia- Dozentinnen/Dozenten
- Prof. Dr. Elke Hartmann, Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Haig, Laurentia Schreiber
- Angaben
- Seminar
2 SWS
Modulstudium
Zeit und Ort: Mi 8:15 - 9:45, MG2/01.02
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Diese Veranstaltung ist belegbar für
- Elite-MA Cultural Studies of the Middle East/Kulturwissenschaften des Vordern Orients: PLing3 Language documentation and analysis oder PLing4 Fieldwork
- MA-General Linguistics Modul 3 „Sociolinguistics of Minority Languages“ (8 ECTS) oder Modul 4 “Linguistic Research Methods” (10 ECTS)
No special knowledge of Armenian is required, but we expect students to be willing to acquire the basics. A knowledge of at least the traditional categories of grammar is expected, and knowledge of Turkish would be an advantage, though is not mandatory.
The course will involve travel to Berlin at least once; arrangements will be finalized at the beginning of term.
- Inhalt
- Up until the beginning of the 20th Century, Armenian was among the most widely-spoken languages across Anatolia. Today, the only viable community in situ are the Hemshinli (also known as Homshetsma) in the eastern Black Sea region, who converted to Islam at least two centuries ago. However, in the diaspora, scattered speakers do remain from Christian communities from other parts of Anatolia. This seminar aims at compiling a selection of language materials from the spoken vernacular of West Armenian (as opposed to the standard written language widely used in publishing and education in the Armenian diaspora), and making it available as a joint documentary project, preserving a record of a rapidly disappearing cultural memory. Students will thus have an opportunity to acquire an understanding of West Armenian language and culture in its historical context, and to apply the techniques of modern language documentation (recording, transcription, presentation of language material).
The course is jointly organized by Prof. Hartmann, an expert on West Armenian culture and history, and a native speaker of the language, Prof. Haig, an expert on language documentation and analysis, together with Laurentia Schreiber, who is a PhD researcher on linguistic minorities of Turkey. After a brief introduction to the historical and cultural background of the West Armenian communities in todayʼs Turkey, and a short linguistic introduction to West Armenian, we will begin working on speech material gathered with diaspora speakers from Berlin, and (hopefully) with material from Hemshinli speakers now living in Istanbul. The aim is to create a documentary record, including recorded texts, and short grammar sketch, embedded in the framework of a larger project on the history of the Armenian culture in West Armenia.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Haig, Geoffrey. 2017. Western Asia: East Anatolia as a transition zone. In: Hickey, Raymond (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics, 396-423. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Himmelmann, Nikolaus. 2006. Language documentation: What is it and what is it good for? In: Gippert, Jost, Nikolaus Himmelmann and Ulrike Mosel (eds.) Essentials of language documentation. Berlin: Mouton, 1-30.
Martirosyan, Hrach. to appear. The Armenian dialects. To appear as Ch. 2.1 in: Haig, Geoffrey and Geoffrey Khan (eds.) The languages and linguistics of Western Asia: an areal perspective. Berlin: Mouton. [pre-publication pdf available to course participants)
Vaux, Bert. 1997. Ethnographic materials from the Muslim Hemshinli. Annual of Armenian Linguistics 17.
Vahé Tachjian (ed.), Ottoman Armenians. Life, Culture, Society, Vol. 1, Berlin 2014
Elke Hartmann, Armenisches Leben im Osmanischen Reich vor 1915: Zwischen Hoffnung und Gefährdung, in: Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Dossier: Aghet – Genozid an den Armeniern (26.04.2016); http://www.bpb.de/geschichte/zeitgeschichte/genozid-an-den-armeniern/218100/armenier-im-osmanischen-reich
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- Linguistic fieldwork: documenting the West Armenian varieties of rural Anatolia
- Credits: 5
- Institution: Cultural Studies of the Middle East (Gastprofessur)
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