{"id":741,"date":"2010-05-16T18:21:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T18:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=741"},"modified":"2010-05-17T14:29:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:29:58","slug":"dont-sleep-there-are-snakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/16\/dont-sleep-there-are-snakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Sleep, There Are Snakes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/dont-sleep.jpeg\" alt=\"don&#039;t sleep\" title=\"don&#039;t sleep\" width=\"75\" height=\"116\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-742\" \/>Following on from my last post about books on language, I\u2019ve just finished reading <a href=\"http:\/\/llc.illinoisstate.edu\/dlevere\/\">Daniel Everett<\/a>\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/daneverettbooks.com\/publications\/do-not-sleep-there-are-snakes\/\">Don\u2019t Sleep, There Are Snakes<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Everett was a Christian missionary who intended to convert a small tribe of Amazonians called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sil.org\/americas\/BRASIL\/LangPage\/englphpg.htm\">Pirah\u00e3<\/a>. The book traces a large part of his life as he lives with the Pirah\u00e3 tribe and learns their language. <\/p>\n<p>The book is split into two sections, with the first half focussing on Pirah\u00e3 life and Everett\u2019s experiences of living with them, and the second half on linguistic theory. Whilst for me it sometimes got a bit too technical in the second half, it\u2019s well worth the effort to learn about the conclusions Everett has come to about the impact of culture on language, something that is not just applicable to the Pirah\u00e3, but all of us. <\/p>\n<p>Has anyone else read the book? What did you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from my last post about books on language, I\u2019ve just finished reading Daniel Everett\u2019s Don\u2019t Sleep, There Are Snakes. Everett was a Christian missionary who intended to convert a small tribe of Amazonians called the Pirah\u00e3. The book traces a large part of his life as he lives with the Pirah\u00e3 tribe and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,99,154],"tags":[723,721,722,727,724,726,725],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-indigenous-languages","category-research","tag-amazonians","tag-daniel-everett","tag-dont-sleep-there-are-snakes","tag-linguistic-theory","tag-piraha","tag-piraha-language","tag-piraha-tribe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}