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 Janis Nuckolls
Hello, and thanks for your interest in my home page.
I am an anthropological linguist (PhD 1990, University of Chicago)
specializing in the Quechua language. The dialect I know best is spoken in the
Pastaza province of Ecuador, in the eastern Amazonian region.
I am broadly interested in poetic forms and processes of all kinds and in
particular, with a word class called ideophones, which occur in languages all
over the world. My book Sounds Like
Life, clarified the rule-governed patterns of ideophone use, explaining how they
are linked to grammatical aspect. My
paper “Spoken in the spirit of a gesture” explored the semantic complexities
of ideophones, which may, arguably, be considered semiotic hybrids, spanning
verbal , gestural, and imageic modes of expression.
My next book, a narrative ethnography, will explore ideophones as a
sociocultural phenomenon, by looking at evidence for connections between
ideophonic discourse and ideological portrayals of humans in
relation to nature. My work on
ideophones has led me to issues of more general interest, such as the language
and nature debates as they are manifest in discussions of sound symbolism.
My Annual Review of Anthropology article considers current debates on
sound symbolism, and hints at the role ideophones may play in these debates.
My forthcoming article “Language and nature in sound alignment”
explores the role of ideophones in a paradigm which considers sound as
culturally constructed. Speaking of
sound, I am very excited about the new Archives of Indigenous Languages of Latin
America, housed at the University of Texas (http://www.ailla.org/), which makes it possible
for researchers to not only write and publish written representations of their
data, but also, to have live recordings of that data for interest readers and
listeners to peruse. I am therefore
attempting to have all of my tape recorded data archived there where it will be
accessible to interested colleagues. Presently, I have two complete narratives housed there,
one of which appeared in 2000, see below, and the other which is forthcoming in
the Latin American Indian Literatures Journal.
To contact Dr. Nuckolls please click
here.
Selected Publications
in preparation Lessons from a
Quechua Strongwoman.
in press Immortality and Incest in
a Quechua Myth In Latin American Indian Literatures Journal.
in press Natural attraction in
Quechua myth and song to appear in Proceedings of the International Symposium on
Hermes and Aphrodite, University of Alabama.
in press To be or not to be
ideophonically impoverished In Proceedings of the Symposium About Language and
Society in Austin, Texas, SALSA XI.
in press Language and nature in
sound alignment invited paper for Wenner-Gren Symposium Hearing Culture: New
Directions in the Anthropology of Sound, April, 2002, Oaxaca, Mexico.
2001 The ideophone in Pastaza
Quechua, Ecuador In: Ideophones, Proceedings of the International Ideophone
Symposium, January 25-27, 1999, Cologne, Germany, F.K. ErhardVoeltz, C.
Kilian-Hatz, (eds.) John
Benjamins Press, Amsterdam.
2000 "Spoken in the
spirit of a gesture" In Translating
Native Latin American Verbal Art Kay Sammons, Joel
Sherzer (eds.) Smithsonian Series of Studies in Native American Literatures,
Washington, D.C.
1999 "The case for
sound symbolism" Annual
Review of Anthropology 28.
1996
Sounds Like Life:Sound-symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza
Quechua. New York: Oxford
University Press.
1995 "Quechua Texts of
Perception" Semiotica
103-1/2 Jan./Feb.
1993 "The semantics of
certainty in Quechua and its implications for
a cultural epistemology" Language
in Society 22.
1992 "Sound-symbolic
involvement" Journal of
Linguistic Anthropology
2:1.
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