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Series to sponsor linguist
GLOSS is hosting linguist
Marianne Mithun through
a colloquium series to speak
on language oppression
Jennifer Bear
Campus/City Culture Reporter
Students at the University enjoy a
privilege that many people around
the world are denied — the right to
speak and converse in the language
of their birth.
GLOSS treasurer Lindsay Jones
said language oppression and en
dangerment have reached critical
levels in many populations around
the world.
“Every two weeks there is a lan
guage dying in the world, and lots of
things, like cultural identity and tra
ditions, die with it,” Jones said.
This term, GLOSS, the student
run organization devoted to the
study of linguistics, is addressing the
issue of language oppression
in their colloquium series, “Lan
guage Endangerment and Language
Revitalization.”
As a part of the series, every Fri
day GLOSS sponsors a colloquium
and brings in a different speaker to
address the topic. Today, Marianne
Mithun, a professor from the lin
guistics department at the Universi
ty of California, Santa Barbara, will
be the guest speaker at the group
discussion on language endanger
ment at 3:30 p.m. in 142 Straub.
Mithun will also be leading a work
shop on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1
p.m. in 216 Allen.
Mithun is a theoretical linguist.
She examines the link between
language and identity, and what
happens culturally when a lan
guage dies.
Christiane De Oliveira, founding
chairwoman of GLOSS and co-or
ganizer of the fall colloquium series,
said Mithun differs from many lin
guists in the way she carries out her
fieldwork because she honors the
needs of the community whose lan
guage is threatened while she con
ducts her research.
Mithun will be addressing the top
ic of balancing academic work ver
sus serving community needs at her
workshop on Saturday.
Linguistics Department Head
Spike Gildea said many languages
are dying out in different societies
around the world because their tra
ditional way of life is being eroded on
all sides. He added the alarming
trend of smaller communities being
assimilated into dominant cultures
is threatening the survival of tradi
tional languages.
“The world is facing what appears
to be an unprecedented extinction of
languages,” Gildea said.
De Oliveira said this term’s
theme was chosen because the
group felt it was a good general in
terest topic that everyone would
enjoy learning about.
“Language endangerment is a top
ic that has to do with minority popu
lations and repressed communities
around the world,” De Oliveira said.
Linguistic research, especially re
garding the world trend towards lan
guage oppression, is of great impor
tance, Jones said.
“Language is a manifestation of a
population’s heritage,” she said, not
just a collection of words and gram
matical rules.
Contact the reporter
atjenniferbear@dailyemerald.com.
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to utilize resources and work closely
with two local violence prevention
groups, Womenspace and Sexual
Assault Support Services.
SASS Community Education Co
ordinator Michelle Edwards said she
thinks the grant will be an effective
way to do more outreach on campus.
“There will be more resources to
put in the direction of Family Hous
ing and the greek system,” she said.
“I think a lot of people think this
might be where it’s needed the most.”
The grant money will also be used
to expand law enforcement training
with the Department of Public Safe
ty, Eyster said.
Additionally, the groups plan to
refine programs for incoming stu
dents, whether through residence
halls or in brochures handed out to
students, Eyster said.
Women’s Center Office Coordina
tor Lori Brown said the money will
also be used to support the Sexual
Wellness Advocacy Team, an intern
ship program that educates about sex
ual assault, to help pay for its outreach
efforts and project programming.
Brown said she hopes the grant
will work in a way that reaches the
community and helps change the
norms that cause sexual violence.
“I hope the program teaches peo
ple about sexual empowerment and
how to have healthy relationships,”
she said.
To track the grant’s effectiveness,
the Institute of Violence and De
structive Behavior will collect data
for the next two years and report
back to the groups.
Contact the reporter
atdaniellegillespie@dailyemerald.com.
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