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Lenguaje es aliento: «aunque aprendas poco, se te abre el coco»
Language Is Breath: «Even if You Learn Little, It Opens Your Mind»
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https://doi.org/10.15446/fyf.v36n2.101182Keywords:
ontología del lenguaje, murui, uitoto, sal vegetal, Wilhelm von Humboldt, arte verbal (es)language onthology, Murui, Witoto, vegetable salt, Wilhelm von Humboldt, verbal art (en)
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Este artículo aborda dos asuntos: uno relacionado con convertir el habla en texto, tomando como punto de partida las experiencias etnográficas del autor intentando aprender, comprender, transcribir, traducir y representar una lengua amerindia: la lengua murui (o uitoto), y otro ligado con experiencias colectivas con el lenguaje donde no interviene la escritura, a partir de la experiencia de la Cátedra de Lenguas «La lengua es espíritu», en la Sede Amazonia de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. La discusión se inspira en la filosofía del lenguaje de Wilhelm von Humboldt, en contraste con lo que Walter Benjamin llamó «la teoría burguesa del lenguaje»: un medio para referirse a algo y dirigido a otro ser humano. La aproximación es desde el espíritu-Geist-Aliento-cuerpo, para dar sentido a la ecuación (territorio/cuerpo) ~ Aliento = lenguaje, que puede ser leída como «lenguaje es el aliento de un cuerpo territorializado». Este es el objeto de este artículo.
This article addresses two issues: one related to turning speech into text, taking as a starting point the author's ethnographic experiences trying to learn, understand, transcribe, translate and represent an Amerindian language: the Murui (or Uitoto) language, and the other linked to collective experiences with language where writing does not intervene, based on the experience of the Cátedra "Language is Spirit", at the Amazonia Campus of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. The discussion is inspired by Wilhelm von Humboldt's philosophy of language, in contrast to what Walter Benjamin called "the bourgeois theory of language": a means to refer to something and addressed to another human being. The approach is from spirit-Geist-Breath-Body, to make sense of the equation (territory/body) ~ Breath = language, which can be read as "language is the breath of a territorialized body". This is the object of this article.
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