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The grammar of well-being: how to talk about illness and health in an Amazonian society
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Ways of talking about diseases, ailments, convalescence, and well-being vary from language to language. In some, an ailment 'hits' or 'gets' the person; in others, the sufferer 'catches' an ailment, comes to be a 'container' for it, or is presented as a 'fighter' or a 'battleground'. In languages with obligatory expression of information source, the onslaught of disease is treated as 'unseen', just like any kind of internal feeling or shamanic activity. Different stages of disease — covering its onset, progression, wearing off, recovery, and cure — form 'the trajectory of well-being'. Our main focus is on grammatical means employed in talking about various phases of disease and well-being, and how these correlate with perception and conceptualization of disease and its progression and demise. I offer a brief taxonomy of grammatical schemas and means employed across the languages of the world. I then turn to a study of terminologies and grammatical schemas employed in the trajectory of well-being in Tariana, an Arawak language from northwest Amazonia (Brazil), with special focus on cultural and cognitive motivations. The emergence and spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has affected ways of speaking about this disease among the Tariana, especially with regard to the origins and the onset of this affliction.
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URL: https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/65979/1/The%20language%20of%20well-being%20Aikhenvald%202021%20322-Article%20Text-4459-1-18-20210207-1.pdf
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Language and ethnobiological skills decline precipitously in Papua New Guinea, the world's most linguistically diverse nation
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Links between language and society among the Murui of north-west Amazonia
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Language and ethnobiological skills decline precipitously in Papua New Guinea, the world’s most linguistically diverse nation
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In: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2021)
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Language and ethnobiological skills decline precipitously in Papua New Guinea, the world's most linguistically diverse nation
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Phonological Word and Grammatical Word: a cross-linguistic typology
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“Damn your eyes!” (not really): imperative imprecatives, and curses as commands
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