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Rations: Flour, sugar, tea and tobacco in Australian languages
Australian Journal of Linguistics ( IF 0.576 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-12 , DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2020.1851170
Vicky Hoogmartens 1 , Jean-Christophe Verstraete 1
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ABSTRACT

This paper is a lexical study of rations – flour, sugar, tea and tobacco – in Australian languages. The distribution of food played an important role in relations between Aboriginal people and colonizers: this study complements existing historical and ethnographic work on the topic by investigating the lexicon of rations in a set of 197 languages across Australia. We discern a number of patterns. There are relatively few extensions of terms for traditional equivalents in the case of ‘flour’, ‘sugar’ and ‘tea’, for a number of reasons, while ‘tobacco’ shows more such extensions. Extensions based on other terms highlight semantic features like texture for flour and sugar, shape of the main ingredient for tea, and smoking as the new mode of consumption for tobacco. Other minor patterns highlight colour, processing and flavour. There is also some areal patterning in the data, some related to borrowing, from Austronesian languages as well as internally, and others based on semantic structure.



中文翻译:

口粮:澳大利亚语言的面粉,糖,茶和烟草

摘要

本文是对澳大利亚语口粮(面粉,糖,茶和烟草)的词汇研究。食物的分配在原住民与殖民者之间的关系中起着重要作用:这项研究通过调查澳大利亚197种语言中的口粮词典,补充了有关该主题的现有历史和人种学工作。我们辨别出多种模式。出于多种原因,在“面粉”,“糖”和“茶”的情况下,传统等效词的术语扩展相对较少,而“烟草”则显示出更多此类扩展。基于其他术语的扩展突出了语义特征,例如面粉和糖的质地,茶的主要成分的形状以及吸烟是烟草新的消费方式。其他较小的图案突出了颜色,加工和风味。

更新日期:2021-04-21
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