Language and culture: Interdisciplinarity in Linguistics
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| Venue: | Viertes Haus 133, Florida International University MMC Campus |
Language and culture: Interdisciplinarity in Linguistics
Miguel Reyes Contreras Fulbright Faculty Fellow Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Date: April 4 th , 2019 Time: 11: 00 to 12:00 p.m.
Venue: Viertes Haus 133, Florida International University MMC Campus
One of the greatest ways to understand society is through the way they name their environment and how this environment influences the shape of their language. Through sayings and proverbs and person and people names, we can analyse the richness of a language. Onomastics is a network between linguistics, history, ethymology, psychology and anthropology. Paremiology is a network between linguistics, history, anthropology, lexicography, and cultural studies. Both Onomastics and Paremiology as disciplines provide a rich perspective in the study of language and culture and the main purpose of this talk is to exemplify through my findings the way language and society connect.
Brief Bio: Miguel Reyes Contreras is a full time professor and researcher at Universidad Intercultural del Estado de Mexico, Mexico in the Language and Culture Department. He belongs to the Mazahuan indigenous community in central Mexico. His main areas of studies are in the Linguistic areas: Onomastics (place and person names), Paremiology (Proverbs, phrases, etc.), Discourse Analysis, Teaching Methodologies and cultural studies related indigenous peoples in Mexico. Most of his work is related to the study of minority languages in the linguistics landscape (in Mexico and New Mexico), Interdisciplinarity in Discourse Analysis, corn and its relation to Proverbs and sayings in Mexican Spanish and methodologies for language and culture teaching. He is currently actively participating in the creation of ONOMA, Seminario interinstitucional de Onomastica and is a member of the Mexican Linguistics Association. He is currently studying the presence of minority languages in the New Mexican Toponomastic Landscape and settled in Santa Fe New Mexico as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar.
