A Hundred Words for Snow (NHB Modern Plays)

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The claim that Eskimo words for snow (specifically Yupik and Inuit words) are unusually numerous, particularly in contrast to English, is often used to support the controversial linguistic-relativity hypothesis or "Whorfianism". The strongest interpretation of this hypothesis, which posits that a language's vocabulary (among other features) shapes or limits its speakers' view of the world, has been largely discredited, [1] though a 2010 study supports the core notion that these languages have many more words for snow than the English language. [2] [3] The original claim is based in the work of anthropologist Franz Boas and was particularly promoted by his contemporary, Benjamin Lee Whorf, whose name is connected with the hypothesis. [4] [5] The idea is commonly tied to larger discussions on the connections between language and thought. Despite this, and the painfully creaky chair in the front row (please sort that one OSO Arts Centre!), A Hundred Words for Snow proves once again what a spectacular piece of playwriting it is, with In Her Element, and in particular Nicole Cuthbert, doing it justice. It was a breath of fresh, Arctic air. A Performance of Pediophobia: “Nightmare Dollhouse” Brings Uncanny Horror to NYC 27th September 2023 Caro Meets Theatre Interview Tatty Hennessy: A Hundred Words For Snow By Caro Moses | Published on Friday 1 March 2019 The play’s points about the fate of our Earth, symbolized by the declining condition of the polar bears, are well integrated into the human story as Rory meets a couple of locals that help her achieve her objective. By the time we get to the unexpected ending, there are a couple of genuinely moving moments in Lucy Jane Atkinson’s clear and confident production. The set, by designer Christianna Mason, looks like a cross between old-world geography textbook and a museum exhibition, and Barnett’s performance is wonderfully engaging. Projecting a personality that is sassy, self-aware and self-deprecating, she gives Rory a character that beams with smiles and then suddenly turns serious, a young woman who is both opinionated and sensitive.

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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.Brought to us by playwright Tatty Hennessy, A Hundred Words For Snow is a one-woman play performed by recent Oxford School of Drama graduate Gemma Barnett. While, understandably, it doesn’t actually contain one hundred different words for snow, it does offer the audience a charming, well-produced emotive piece that manages to be lighthearted while also dealing with a number of significant life-changing issues. And often pulling few punches while doing so.

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Floating Islands of AI: Agrupación Señor Serrano’s “La isla/The Island” in Madrid 27th October 2023 Fortescue, Michael D.; Jacobson, Steven; Kaplan, Lawrence, eds. (2010). "PE apun 'snow (on ground)' ". Comparative Eskimo Dictionary: With Aleut Cognates (2nded.). Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks. p.40. ISBN 978-1-555-00-109-4.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 TH: It’s terrifying! I was expecting it to be a profound experience but I wasn’t at all prepared for how it felt. The landscape is like nothing I’d ever seen before, it exists on a scale of size and time that’s so inhuman.

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On the other hand, some anthropologists have argued that Boas, who lived among Baffin islanders and learnt their language, did in fact take account of the polysynthetic nature of Inuit language and included "only words representing meaningful distinctions" in his account. [3] Igor Krupnik, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center in Washington, supports Boas's work but notes that Boas was careful to include only words representing meaningful distinctions. Krupnik and others charted the vocabulary of about 10 Inuit and Yupik dialects and concluded that they indeed have many more words for snow than English does. Central Siberian Yupik has 40 terms. Inuit dialect spoken in Canada's Nunavik region has at least 53, including matsaaruti, for wet snow that can be used to ice a sleigh's runners, and pukak, for crystalline powder snow that looks like salt. Within these dialects, the vocabulary associated with sea ice is even richer. In the Inupiaq dialect of Wales, Alaska, Krupnik documented 70 terms for ice including: utuqaq, ice that lasts year after year; siguliaksraq, a patchwork layer of crystals that form as the sea begins to freeze; and auniq, ice that is filled with holes. Similarly, the Sami people, who live in the northern tips of Scandinavia and Russia, use at least 180 words related to snow and ice, according to Ole Henrik Magga, a linguist in Norway. (Unlike Inuit dialects, Sami ones are not polysynthetic, making it easier to distinguish words.) [9] Director Lucy Jane Atkinson has given a heavy topic a sense of lightness. Even on a small stage, we can feel the production breathe and take up space far beyond the confines of the performance space.TH: To keep on writing plays and telling stories and working in this mad, brilliant industry for as long as I can get away with. 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. The show has been developed with the support of the Peggy Ramsey Foundation and Arts Council England.

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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. This edition also includes the diary of her research trip to the Arctic Circle, and the short play Distant Early Warning, set in 2053 in what was once Greenland. TH: Unfortunately, it still feels like quite a radical thing to take the desires, longings, fears and experiences of a teenage girl seriously as a subject for art, and this play puts it front and centre. The play won the Heretic Voices Monologue Competition and was first produced at the Arcola Theatre, London, in 2018. A new production was performed at the 2018 VAULT Festival, where it was the winner of a VAULT Origins Award for outstanding new work from the VAULT Festival. It then toured the UK, with a run at the Trafalgar Studios in London's West End in 2019.Panko, Ben (2016). " Does the Linguistic Theory at the Center of the Film ‘Arrival’ Have Any Merit?". Smithsonian Magazine. Smithsonian Magazine. I 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. Robson, David (2012). Are there really 50 Eskimo words for snow?, New Scientist no. 2896, 72–73. [5] Franz Boas did not make quantitative claims [6] but rather pointed out that the Eskimo–Aleut languages have about the same number of distinct word roots referring to snow as English does, with the structure of these languages tending to allow more variety as to how those roots can be modified in forming a single word. [4] [note 1] A good deal of the ongoing debate thus depends on how one defines "word", and perhaps even "word root".