之前有象友问过“语言不只是表述思维,它甚至塑造了思维本身、就是对世界的理解本身”有没有具体例子。我当时脑子里一时想不到。但今天读Marta Rose的newsletter里聊植物学如何把人类异性恋繁殖的语言impose到植物上不但造成了表述的复杂难懂还限制了对植物如何生活的想像和研究本身,觉得是一个很好的例子,而且也展示了所谓“科学”(的语言)里是如何充满了人为的ideology/bias/preassumption/myth,然后通过科学的“客观、真实”属性去naturalize(aka“洗白”)它们:
“Yet another example, from the book Botany of Empire, regards the ways we understand plant reproduction. Banu Subramaniam points to the ways metaphors for plant reproduction are rooted in European colonial norms of heterosexual reproductive sex and romance. Subramaniam argues that the ways we think “scientifically” about plant reproduction rely obsessively on metaphors related to Western binary categories of sex and gender and the normativity of heterosexual sex, which are themselves more ideological than they are scientific. She notes that in order to make this framework make sense, biologists have had to shoehorn the vast majority of plants into ill-fitting categories such as “bisexual” or “hermaphrodite,” because the flowers have both “male” and “female” parts, as well as “asexual,” for plants that propagage through roots, stems, leaves, and buds. “There are more exceptions than rules,” says Subramaniam. “Plants do such interesting things… if we had better ways to describe them that aren’t based around human reproduction, it might open up other ways to study them.”
The consequences of this apparently “scientific” metaphorical structuring of plant reproduction not only affects the way we think about plants, but it in turn reinforces the notion that these constructs regarding human sexuality are also scientific, neutral, and essentially rooted in biology. It’s a neat trick. The metaphors become mutually reinforcing in a way that gives a scientific gloss to concepts that are largely constructed and ideological.”
文章里还有更多(可能更直接易懂)的例子,以及可以怎样actively运用/更改metaphor。对语言、文化和思维之间互动有兴趣的值得一读。
The Spiral Lab | Metaphors We Change Culture By
https://thespirallab.substack.com/p/metaphors-we-change-culture-by
之前买的超广角的手机镜头竟然打骨折。。。好伤心,我全价买的。。给有需要的朋友 https://www.shopmoment.com/products/1-33x-anamorphic-lens?variant=48040445608251
效果是挺好的,好多友邻都以为我是相机拍摄的,附几张我拍的样片
推荐一个来自台湾的生态教育Ins账号。讲树木维护,生态种植的知识和应用。
https://www.instagram.com/satoyama_education_taiwan?igsh=MTJ4aW9pYXAwd3Zlbg==
给长毛象姐妹们一个机会
————————————————————
拥有一年或以上专业工作经验的女记者均可申请 5,000 美元的资助。
国际女性媒体基金会(IWMF)的金·沃尔纪念基金正在接受申请,该基金将资助能在工作上体现沃尔的报道精神的记者。金·沃尔(Kim Wall)生前是一位屡获殊荣的记者,活跃于印刷、视频、广播和长篇报道。
基金将资助女性或非二元身份记者,报道广义上的次文化,以及金·沃尔称之为 “反叛的暗流”。
资助额将用于支付与报道相关的费用,包括旅费、物流、保险、签证费、专业补助以及僱用製作人、翻译等费用。
申请人必须具备出色的书面英语和口语能力,才能充份参与项目并从中受益;不过报道的内容则可以任何语言发布。
申请截止日期为 12 月 8 日。
————————————————
https://www.iwmf.org/programs/kim-wall-memorial-fund/
高中语文人教版新课改简直是灾难级别,加入了大量毛泽东诗词和政论文,还有一系列的科技进步通讯宣传稿,正常人都知道这他妈没法考试,纯浪费语文教学时间;古文必修大规模删减抒情散文,《逍遥游》《归去来兮辞》《滕王阁序》去选修不必背诵默写就直接遭殃;大篇幅增加唐宋奏议策论的士大夫文体,诗词部分,砍了柳永《雨霖铃》,杜甫《秋兴八首》,白居易《琵琶行》《长恨歌》,外国小说给你直接干稀碎,加入了四个长篇小说节选:《复活》《百年孤独》《大卫科波菲尔》《老人与海》,外国短篇小说选修本彻底消失,只剩契诃夫还被保留。
根据最近五年的语文高考命题,可以说教育部语文高考命题组比教材编写组更加谄媚,作文只能写新时代爱国一个主题。