Luisa Maffi
Biographic Data
| ID | 128751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luisa Maffi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Maffi |
| SIGNATURE | MAFFI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 350 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Terralingua
Terralingua ( www.terralingua.org ) is an international nongovernmental organization (NGO) founded in 1996. It is the world's first organization with a mission to sustain the biocultural diversity of life—our invaluable global heritage of biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity.
A Brief Introduction to Khorasani Turkish in Iran
The present study is just for the purpose of raising the awareness of language endangerment for Turkish language of Khorasan area in Iran, especially the Turkish accent in Joghatay (a city which is located in Khorasan Razavi province in Iran). Reasons like immigration, being a minority, and social prestigious behavior makes this accent under the risk of extinction
Biocultural Diversity
The concept of biocultural diversity expresses a holistic idea of the diversity of life in nature and culture. It sees biodiversity, cultural diversity, and linguistic diversity as interrelated and interdependent manifestations of the web of life. The concept has spurred an integrative field of research that, drawing from social, linguistic, and natural sciences, seeks to identify correlations and possible causal connections among these diversiti…
The Intersections of Biological Diversity and Cultural Diversity: Towards Integration
There is an emerging recognition that the diversity of life comprises both biological and cultural diversity.In the past, however, it has been common to make divisions between nature and culture, arising partly out of a desire to control nature.The range of interconnections between biological and cultural diversity are reflected in the growing variety of environmental sub-disciplines that have emerged.In this article, we present ideas from a numb…
Biocultural Diversity and Sustainability
Linguistic, Cultural, and Biological Diversity
Over the past decade, the field of biocultural diversity has arisen as an area of transdisciplinary research concerned with investigating the links between the world's linguistic, cultural, and biological diversity as manifestations of the diversity of life. The impetus for the emergence of this field came from the observation that all three diversities are under threat by some of the same forces and from the perception that loss of diversity at …
Endangered languages, endangered knowledge
Color Appearance and the Emergence and Evolution of Basic Color Lexicons
Various revisions of the Berlin and Kay (1969) model of the evolution of basic color term systems have been produced in the last thirty years, motivated by both empirical and theoretical considerations. On the empirical side, new facts about color naming systems have continually come to light, which have demanded adjustments in lhe descriptive model. On the theoretical side, lhere has been a sustained effort to find motivation in the vision scien…
Color Categories in Thought and Language
In the late 1960s, Berlin and Kay argued that there are commonalities of basic colour term use that extend across languages and cultures, and probably express universal features of perception and cognition. In 1992, at the Asilomar Conference Centre, visual scientists and psychologists met with linguists and anthropologists for the first time to examine how these claims have fared in the light of current knowledge. To what extent can cross-cultur…
Liquor and Medicine: A Mayan Case Study in Diachronic Semantics
This article discusses processes of semantic change in the context of a Mayan case study. It presents a diachronic analysis of the meaning of the Tzeltal and Tzotzil Maya word pox-synchronically used to refer to sugarcane liquor (aguardiente) in various dialects of these two languages of southern Mexico-as well as of its relationship with the derived word poxil 'medicine'. The article argues for a dynamic of semantic change in which abstract mean…
Linguistic, Cultural, and Biological Diversity
Over the past decade, the field of biocultural diversity has arisen as an area of transdisciplinary research concerned with investigating the links between the world's linguistic, cultural, and biological diversity as manifestations of the diversity of life. The impetus for the emergence of this field came from the observation that all three diversities are under threat by some of the same forces and from the perception that loss of diversity at …
The Intersections of Biological Diversity and Cultural Diversity: Towards Integration
There is an emerging recognition that the diversity of life comprises both biological and cultural diversity.In the past, however, it has been common to make divisions between nature and culture, arising partly out of a desire to control nature.The range of interconnections between biological and cultural diversity are reflected in the growing variety of environmental sub-disciplines that have emerged.In this article, we present ideas from a numb…
Color Appearance and the Emergence and Evolution of Basic Color Lexicons
Various revisions of the Berlin and Kay (1969) model of the evolution of basic color term systems have been produced in the last thirty years, motivated by both empirical and theoretical considerations. On the empirical side, new facts about color naming systems have continually come to light, which have demanded adjustments in lhe descriptive model. On the theoretical side, lhere has been a sustained effort to find motivation in the vision scien…
Endangered languages, endangered knowledge
Liquor and Medicine: A Mayan Case Study in Diachronic Semantics
This article discusses processes of semantic change in the context of a Mayan case study. It presents a diachronic analysis of the meaning of the Tzeltal and Tzotzil Maya word pox-synchronically used to refer to sugarcane liquor (aguardiente) in various dialects of these two languages of southern Mexico-as well as of its relationship with the derived word poxil 'medicine'. The article argues for a dynamic of semantic change in which abstract mean…
Liquor and Medicine: A Mayan Case Study in Diachronic Semantics
This article discusses processes of semantic change in the context of a Mayan case study. It presents a diachronic analysis of the meaning of the Tzeltal and Tzotzil Maya word pox-synchronically used to refer to sugarcane liquor (aguardiente) in various dialects of these two languages of southern Mexico-as well as of its relationship with the derived word poxil 'medicine'. The article argues for a dynamic of semantic change in which abstract mean…
Color Categories in Thought and Language
In the late 1960s, Berlin and Kay argued that there are commonalities of basic colour term use that extend across languages and cultures, and probably express universal features of perception and cognition. In 1992, at the Asilomar Conference Centre, visual scientists and psychologists met with linguists and anthropologists for the first time to examine how these claims have fared in the light of current knowledge. To what extent can cross-cultur…
Color Appearance and the Emergence and Evolution of Basic Color Lexicons
Various revisions of the Berlin and Kay (1969) model of the evolution of basic color term systems have been produced in the last thirty years, motivated by both empirical and theoretical considerations. On the empirical side, new facts about color naming systems have continually come to light, which have demanded adjustments in lhe descriptive model. On the theoretical side, lhere has been a sustained effort to find motivation in the vision scien…
Endangered languages, endangered knowledge
Linguistic, Cultural, and Biological Diversity
Over the past decade, the field of biocultural diversity has arisen as an area of transdisciplinary research concerned with investigating the links between the world's linguistic, cultural, and biological diversity as manifestations of the diversity of life. The impetus for the emergence of this field came from the observation that all three diversities are under threat by some of the same forces and from the perception that loss of diversity at …
Biocultural Diversity and Sustainability
The Intersections of Biological Diversity and Cultural Diversity: Towards Integration
There is an emerging recognition that the diversity of life comprises both biological and cultural diversity.In the past, however, it has been common to make divisions between nature and culture, arising partly out of a desire to control nature.The range of interconnections between biological and cultural diversity are reflected in the growing variety of environmental sub-disciplines that have emerged.In this article, we present ideas from a numb…
Biocultural Diversity
The concept of biocultural diversity expresses a holistic idea of the diversity of life in nature and culture. It sees biodiversity, cultural diversity, and linguistic diversity as interrelated and interdependent manifestations of the web of life. The concept has spurred an integrative field of research that, drawing from social, linguistic, and natural sciences, seeks to identify correlations and possible causal connections among these diversiti…
A Brief Introduction to Khorasani Turkish in Iran
The present study is just for the purpose of raising the awareness of language endangerment for Turkish language of Khorasan area in Iran, especially the Turkish accent in Joghatay (a city which is located in Khorasan Razavi province in Iran). Reasons like immigration, being a minority, and social prestigious behavior makes this accent under the risk of extinction
Terralingua
Terralingua ( www.terralingua.org ) is an international nongovernmental organization (NGO) founded in 1996. It is the world's first organization with a mission to sustain the biocultural diversity of life—our invaluable global heritage of biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity.
Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Cultural diversity (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)