1905 movie network exclusive It’s been a long time since there was such an authentic sci-fi film. I was spoiled by the bad routine of Hollywood, and I suspected that I saw a fake sci-fi film.
If you don’t agree with each other, you will eat people and blame them. If you don’t agree with each other, you will conan the destroyer and rule the world. In the past, in our YY, aliens were either greedy and ugly beasts or godless sticks.
Fortunately, arrival, which was released these two days, finally helped us to lavage our stomachs: although aliens are still ugly, their handwriting is good-looking; Although the alien spacecraft is still awesome, people are not here for aggression … …
You see, you don’t have to fight and kill to engage in science fiction. People came to the earth not far from Wan Li, probably to teach us savage earthlings to write and write calligraphy, and it’s okay to cultivate our sentiments … …
Of course, it is not easy to learn calligraphy, and it is even more difficult to learn "foreign language" calligraphy, not to mention that we are going to learn "alien" calligraphy this time … … Before learning calligraphy with Advent, let’s master the following basic knowledge:
[Rising before watching movies: You need to know these connotations]
As a rare science fiction work with linguistics as its core, this means that "Coming" is somewhat far from ordinary fans. But after reading the following cold knowledge, I believe this work is not as "brain-burning" as you think.
I didn’t study language, but culture.
Linguistics ≠ Learning Language: What exactly is linguistics for?
As the name implies, "linguistics" is the science of studying language. Grammar, semantics and phonetics are all within the scope of linguistics. Unlike simply learning a specific language, linguistics focuses on the development of all human languages or "Chinese" at a higher level, not just on how to translate a specific language.
Language is the code to decipher civilization. Different languages reflect differences in different cultures, ways of thinking and world views, which are the focus of linguistic research.
"If it is not my race, its heart will be different." In the story of arrival, the military hired linguists to help decipher the alien language, not to learn about alien civilization, but to find out their purpose and understand their civilization.
At the same time, the military wants aliens to know our language as little as possible. In fact, it is also afraid that aliens will know our civilization level and launch aggression or colonial wars.
Sapir (left) and Wolff (right)
Have you ever dreamed in a foreign language? Sapir — Wolf hypothesis
"I think about it every day and dream at night." I wonder if you have ever dreamed in a foreign language?
We all know that to really master a language, we need to think and express it with the logic behind it. So over time, will even the world view be taken away? The famous "Sapir — That’s what the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis says.
This hypothesis was put forward by Edward Sapir, a famous American linguist, and his disciple Benjamin Lee Whorf, who believed that all high-level thinking depended on language. Wolff further pointed out that people who use different languages have different feelings and experiences of the world, which is the "linguistic relativity".
If this hypothesis holds, then, as we often say, "poetry is what gets lost in translation", there is no real translation in the world. You can only abandon the inherent way of thinking, enter the world view behind the new language and acquire the new language, so as to truly feel the world built by the new language.
Think in a foreign language, dream in a foreign language, and predict the future in a foreign language?
Of course, this hypothesis has been facing controversy since it was put forward in the last century:
Supporters believe that this hypothesis highlights the cultural function of language, instead of using language as a simple tool, it emphasizes its influence on thinking and ideas;
Skeptics think that this statement is too exaggerated. Language and thinking are not simply a matter of who decides who, but a two-way interactive relationship.
And this "arrival" can be said to be another bold exaggeration of this hypothesis: when you master the nonlinear alien language, you can even predict the future.
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