A Hundred Words for Snow (NHB Modern Plays)

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Pullum, Geoffrey K. (1991). The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language. University of Chicago Press. [2] It might be an old myth that the Inuit have dozens of different words to talk about the cold, white stuff that falls from the sky – but at least there are plenty of positive adjectives with which to describe Gemma Barnett's performance in A Hundred Words for Snow: a one-woman play now at Trafalgar Studios. Classifications of snow– Methods for describing snowfall events and the resulting snow crystals; also discusses words for snow in other languages The show has been developed with the support of the Peggy Ramsey Foundation and Arts Council England. Well, not literally. Literally he was a Geography teacher. But inside, she knows, he was Bear Grylls.

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People who live in an environment in which snow or different kinds of grass, for example, play an important role are more aware of the different characteristics and appearances of different kinds of snow or grass and describe them in more detail than people in other environments. It is however not meaningful to say that people who see snow or grass as often but use another language have less words to describe it if they add the same kind of descriptive information as separate words instead of as "glued-on" ( agglutinated) additions to a similar number of words. In other words, English speakers living in Alaska, for example, have no trouble describing as many different kinds of snow as Inuit speakers. The first re-evaluation of the claim was by linguist Laura Martin in 1986, who traced the history of the claim and argued that its prevalence had diverted attention from serious research into linguistic relativity. A subsequent influential and humorous, and polemical, essay by Geoff Pullum repeated Martin's critique, calling the process by which the so-called "myth" was created the "Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax". Pullum argued that the fact that the number of word roots for snow is about equally large in Eskimoan languages and English indicates that there exists no difference in the size of their respective vocabularies to define snow. Other specialists in the matter of Eskimoan languages and Eskimoan knowledge of snow and especially sea ice argue against this notion and defend Boas's original fieldwork amongst the Inuit of Baffin Island. [2] [7] TH: Grief, being an explorer in a world that’s melting, and being a teenage girl in a world that doesn’t think all that much of teenage girls. Lighting Designer Lucy Adams’ use of dark blue aids the show in its moments of silence and reflection, and Sound Designers Mark Sutcliffe and Annie May Fletcher give direction to the play without it being overbearing, creating a shifting soundscape fit for an adventure.

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The Danger Within: “Asesinato y adolescencia” / “Assassination and Adolescence” Opens the Español’s Season at Madrid’s Matadero 28th October 2023 Kaplan, Larry (June 2003). "Inuit Snow Terms: How Many and What Does It Mean? | Alaska Native Language Center". www.uaf.edu . Retrieved 2021-12-10.

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a b Krupnik, Igor; Müller-Wille, Ludger (2010), Krupnik, Igor; Aporta, Claudio; Gearheard, Shari; Laidler, Gita J. (eds.), "Franz Boas and Inuktitut Terminology for Ice and Snow: From the Emergence of the Field to the "Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax" ", SIKU: Knowing Our Ice, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp.377–400, doi: 10.1007/978-90-481-8587-0_16, ISBN 978-90-481-8586-3 , retrieved 2023-01-16Languages in the Inuit and Yupik language groups add suffixes to words to express the same concepts expressed in English and many other languages by means of compound words, phrases, and even entire sentences. One can create a practically unlimited number of new words in the Eskimoan languages on any topic, not just snow, and these same concepts can be expressed in other languages using combinations of words. In general and especially in this case, it is not necessarily meaningful to compare the number of words between languages that create words in different ways due to different grammatical structures. [4] [8] [note 2] Boas, Franz. 1911. Handbook of American Indian languages pp. 25-26. Boas "utilized" this part also in his book The Mind of Primitive Man. 1911. pp. 145-146. TH: The play tells the story of Rory, a fifteen year old girl whose father dies very suddenly. She decides to help him have one last adventure, and runs away from home with his ashes to the North Pole, without telling Mum. A Hundred Words for Snow is about being an explorer in a melting world. It’s a coming of age story. With polar bears. The show has been developed with the support of the Peggy Ramsey Foundation and was a winner of the Heretic Voices Monologue Competition.

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TH: I’ve always been a bit of a geek for stories of exploration, but the most famous and celebrated always seemed to be dead beardy men. I wondered what would happen if you put a very different hero at the centre, and Rory was born. Krupnik, Igor; Müller-Wille, Ludger (2010), "Franz Boas and Inuktitut Terminology for Ice and Snow: From the Emergence of the Field to the "Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax" ", in Krupnik, Igor; Aporta, Claudio; Gearheard, Shari; Laidler, Gita J.; Holm, Lene Kielsen (eds.), SIKU: Knowing Our Ice: Documenting Inuit Sea Ice Knowledge and Use, Berlin: Springer Science & Business Media, pp.377–99, ISBN 9789048185870

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Panko, Ben (2016). " Does the Linguistic Theory at the Center of the Film ‘Arrival’ Have Any Merit?". Smithsonian Magazine. Smithsonian Magazine. Téa Guarino... chisels her way through this icy expanse with grace and aplomb. The character of Rory seems frighteningly young to be having the adventures she has, except the play is largely a metaphor for coming-of-age transformations and revelations." A Hundred Words For Snow is a warm and witty coming-of-age story set in a melting world. It’s a complex story which discusses grief, courage and polar bears. It’s an epic tale about how one girl goes on a journey through adolescence and the Arctic, discovering herself and also the destruction of the planet. TH: Every play is political. I don’t think about using the play to make points – its about telling a story, and the story explores several areas and I hope encourages an audience to reflect on things – on how we now engage, and how we have historically engaged, with our planet and with each other, and if there’s a way we could be doing this better.

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And when he dies suddenly in an accident, Rory knows he needs her help to make one last expedition. A Hundred Words for Snow is a joy from start to finish. It is funny, thoughtful and heart-warming. I left the theatre ready for an adventure of my own. Words are the stars of this show, carefully selected and crafted to create a play with real beauty, depth and heart. The set design by Christianna Mason is ingenious, creating a landscape which reflects the explorer spirit and is downright beautiful. Every time something was pulled from a little cubby or out of a chest, my heart jumped like a child on an Easter egg hunt. Floating Islands of AI: Agrupación Señor Serrano’s “La isla/The Island” in Madrid 27th October 2023I very much hope you leave A Hundred Words For Snow and take a moment to stand still, look up into the sky, feel the whole earth holding you up and be your own North Pole. Groundbreaking Autistic-Led Production of “A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” at A Common Thread Theatre Company in Framingham, MA 21st October 2023 Kilarski, Marcin (2021). "Eskimo words for snow". A History of the Study of the Indigenous Languages of North America. Studies in the History of the Language Sciences. Vol.129. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp.275–322. doi: 10.1075/sihols.129. ISBN 978-90-272-1049-4. S2CID 244025983. Edward Sapir's and Benjamin Whorf's hypothesis of linguistic relativity holds that the language we speak both affects and reflects our view of the world. This idea is also reflected in the concept behind general semantics. In a popular 1940 article on the subject, Whorf referred to Eskimo languages having several words for snow: