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Western Apache Language And It's Ideas Summary

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Apache Language and it’s Ideas Western Apache Language and Culture, written by Keith Basso, is a prominent book that shows how the language of Western Apache is one of the most cultivating and unique languages. The book focuses merely on the examination of linguistics and anthropology within the Apache language and their village of Cibecue. He defines the figures of speech and details of the language. For example, he describes their use of names,verbs,metaphors,nouns,etc.. With the help of this book, we will uncover some examples that will help us explain and determine one big question being asked by Dr. Zane which is, “How do apache language use ideas of space, shape, movement, and/or life?” The ideas of shape and space within Apache lingo is shown throughout chapter two. This chapter gives an explanation and example that focuses on the Apache terminology of the human body. This terminology was used to relate automobiles with men and women. Details such as their shape, space, and movement helped extend and categorize the word with its correct anatomical definition as well as it’s automobile definition. For example, Words such as bigan, which meant ‘ hand and arm’ had a …show more content…

As shown in the book, there are many examples that illustrate and show the apaches culture and also how their language is based on the different types of ideologies. This is seen for example in chapter one when talking about verb stems and as well as in chapter two when talking about anatomical and extended meaning terminology. Although every chapter describes the language and how it affects the life of an apache individual, chapter three seemed to portray the use of writing and how it gives the apache a way to describe and write. Every example shown throughout the paper addresses the illustration of language. This conveys to the understandings of anthropology and

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