Elp Reading Response #1

Reading Response 1 Ecology of Language and Place

Due: Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009 Chamberlain & McKinnon

Overview: -Review: Reading Response Guidelines before writing your reading response. It will give you an overview of how to structure your reading responses each week. Bring your texts to class each night for seminar discussions and workshops. Please make sure that you post your reading response to our class drupal site before you come to class. This is your ticket into seminar! All class resources are on our website at: . Reading Assignment: 1) Snyder, Gary. “The Politics of Ethnopoetics.” A Place In Space. Washington D. C.: Counterpoint, 1995. p. 126-147. On our class druple site and at: 2) David Corten, “The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community.” YES! Summer 2006: 5,000 Years of Empire. On our class druple site and at: 3) Chamberlain, Rebecca. “The Power of Story” Liberating Voices: A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution. Ed. Doug Shuler. Boston: MIT Press, 2008. On our class druple site and at: 4) Kane, Sean. Wisdom Of the Mythtellers. Ontario, Canada: Broadview Press, 1994. Chapter 1: Pattern p. 27 5) Fill, Alwin, and Peter Muehlhaeusler. The Ecolinguistics Reader: Language, Ecology, and Environment. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001. -Ecolinguistics: State of the Art 1998 p. 43 Reading Questions: What do the various authors we have looked at this week have to say about ecology, language, place, and story?

How do these authors explore how different cultural perspectives effect how we think about ecology, language, and place? What are some of the common themes or differences between these different work? How do they characterize humans’ relationship to the knowledge that is contained in our environment and other animal species? How does this knowledge affect the language, myths, and stories that we share? How do you think our exploration of ecology, language, place, and story connect us to issues of sustainability locally and globally? Preparing for Wednesday Night: To prepare for our guest workshop and lecture on Lushootseed with Zalmai Zahir, go to: , and check out the links under “programs.” Look for the phonetic programs that explore the sounds and phonetic symbols in the Lushootseed alphabet. http://pugetsalish.com/index.html http://pugetsalish.com/links4.html http://www.geocities.com/pugetsalish/alphabetSong2.htm http://www.geocities.com/pugetsalish/alphabet2.htm