Hello Fellow 540 Participants

Hello, I'm Lisa Phillips and I look forward to learning the ways in which linguists are cool too. In this post, I have attached a clip from a 2008 film named Linguists. I haven't seen the film, but the clip demonstrates a concept that I recognize from anthropology which is the idea of "recovery work" or the idea of a "vanishing" Native population. In this instance, the filmmakers show the linguistics engaged in a race to record the world's dying languages. It reminded me of much of the ethnographic work completed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Native American communities in the United States.