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The language of eating and drinking: a window on Orang Asli meaning-making

In English

Författare

Redaktör

  • Kirk Endicott

Summary, in English

We make in this chapter a first probe into the lexical domain of eating and drinking as it is construed in the Aslian languages, a branch of the Austroasiatic language family spoken by a majority of the Orang Asli of the Malay Peninsula. Fundamental to human experience and representation, the domain of ingestion has received increased linguistic attention in recent years. Setting out from our own primary field data from several Aslian languages, collected over the past 25 years , we examine the form, meaning, and history of eating and drinking vocabulary and show that Aslian harbours unusual lexical strategies for ingestion. We place particular focus on ingestion events as expressed in the class of verbs. Moreover, in this seemingly restricted and mundane domain, we unpack semantic principles of wider significance to Aslian meaning-making, which speak directly to cultural distinctions within the Orang Asli sphere. In particular, we uncover a clear distinction in semantic categorisation strategies between foragers and non-foragers.

Publiceringsår

2016

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

175-199

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Malaysia’s original people : Past, present and future of the Orang Asli

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

National University of Singapore Press

Ämne

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Digital Multimedia Archive of Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage Phase II: Seeding Multidisciplinary Workspaces
  • Language as key to perceptual diversity: an interdisciplinary approach to the senses

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 978-9971-69-861-4