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Title:Conversation/Interview in a tavern in Minde
Tavern
Einarbeitung in die Dokumentationslinguistik am Beispiel des Minderico: "An Endangered Language in Portugal“
Contributor:Vera Ferreira
Peter Bouda
Bento Martinho
João Vieira da Costa
António Afonso
João Maria Penúria
Saul Almeida Patita
Coverage:Portugal
Date:2009-03-25
Description:Interview with and conversation between five inhabitants of Minde in an old tavern. The main theme of this conversation is life in Minde. The five men talk about their life stories, stories of Minde and about Minderico.
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Annette Endruschat is funded to specialize in documentary linguistics by documenting the language and culture of the town of Minde, in the centre of Portugal with a population of 3380. Minderico is only spoken in Minde and not in any of the adjacent villages. It has to be regarded as highly endangered, because the number of (active) speakers of Minderico has decreased considerably to only a few hundred in the last three decades. In the recent past Minderico has become more and more restricted to the use in informal situations and Portuguese has developed into the main language of communication throughout the Minde region. There are also a few passive speakers who are able to understand Minderico but who do not use it actively anymore. With this project, it is intended to emphasize that there are also unknown endangered languages in Europe and that the Iberian region is not as homogeneous as the language policy of Portugal would like us to believe. Moreover, this project expects to give an impulse to the documentation of the linguistic and cultural richness in the Romance world, an area widely neglected in Romance studies. That is why this project is based on an intensive cooperation between Romance linguistics and general linguistics and typology.
Involvement: semi-elicited; Interview with and conversation between five inhabitants of Minde in an old tavern. The main theme of this conversation is life in Minde. The five men talk about their life stories, stories of Minde and about Minderico.
Place of Birth: Serpa (Alentejo) Occupation: locksmith Bento Martinho came from Serpa to Minde when he was 15 years old. He learnt Minderico as second language. His competence is good but he does not speak it fluently.
Place of Birth: Alqueidão da Serra Occupation: retiree, barkeeper (owner of the tavern) João Vieira da Costa learnt Minderico as second language at theage of 12, when his family moved to Minde 52 years ago. He speaks it almost fluently.
Place of Birth: Minde Occupation: retiree (he worked in the blanket / textile production)
Place of Birth: Serpa (Alentejo) Occupation: locksmith João Penúria came from Serpa to Minde 45 years ago. He learnt Minderico as second language but he does not speak it fluently. He is a semiactive speaker. In his pronunciation the diatopic characteristics of “Alentejano” are very evident.
Place of Birth: Minde Occupation: retiree (he worked as blanket and textile seller), musician Saul Patita belongs to the group of speakers with passive knowledge of Minderico. He understands it but he almost does not speak it. His grandparents only spoke Minderico.
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This image shows the owner of the tavern, speaker MD004.
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Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-3FBD-7
II/83964
Publisher:Annette Endruschat
Universität Regensburg
Subject:Discourse
Conversation/Interview
Unspecified
Portuguese language
Minderico language
Subject (ISO639):por
drc
Type:video
audio
image

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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-3FBD-7
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Citation: Vera Ferreira; Peter Bouda; Bento Martinho; João Vieira da Costa; António Afonso; João Maria Penúria; Saul Almeida Patita. 2009-03-25. Annette Endruschat.
Terms: area_Europe country_PT iso639_drc iso639_por

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Country: Portugal
Area: Europe


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