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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Russian Journal of Linguistics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Russian Journal of Linguistics</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2687-0088</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2686-8024</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23247</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2687-0088-2020-24-1-7-30</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="zh"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">“... to grasp the native's point of view...” - A Plea for a Holistic Documentation of the Trobriand Islanders' Language, Culture and Cognition</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>«...как понять туземца...» - Необходимость целостного описания языка, культуры и менталитета тробрианцев</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Senft</surname><given-names>Gunter</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Сенфт</surname><given-names>Гюнтер</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>senior investigator at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (The Netherlands) and extraordinary professor of general linguistics at the University of Cologne (Germany).</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>старший научный сотрудник Института психолингвистики Макса Планка (Нидерланды), почетный профессор лингвистики Кельнского университета</p></bio><email>Gunter.Senft@mpi.nl</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Институт психолингвистики Макса Планка</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2020-12-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>12</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>24</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 24, NO1 (2020)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 24, №1 (2020)</issue-title><fpage>7</fpage><lpage>30</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2020-03-24"><day>24</day><month>03</month><year>2020</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2020, Senft G.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2020, Сенфт Г.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="zh">Copyright ©; 2020, Senft G.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2020</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Senft G.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Сенфт Г.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="zh">Senft G.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/23247">https://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/23247</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>In his famous introduction to his monograph “Argonauts of the Western Pacific” Bronislaw Malinowski (1922: 24f.) points out that a “collection of ethnographic statements, characteristic narratives, typical utterances, items of folk-lore and magical formulae has to be given as a corpus inscriptionum , as documents of native mentality”. This is one of the prerequisites to “grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realize his vision of his world”. Malinowski managed to document a “ Corpus Inscriptionum Agriculturae Quriviniensis ” in his second volume of “Coral Gardens and their Magic” (1935 Vol II: 79-342). But he himself did not manage to come up with a holistic corpus inscriptionum for the Trobriand Islanders. One of the main aims I have been pursuing in my research on the Trobriand Islanders' language, culture, and cognition has been to fill this ethnolinguistic niche. In this essay, I report what I had to do to carry out this complex and ambitious project, what forms and kinds of linguistic and cultural competence I had to acquire, and how I planned my data collection during 16 long- and short-term field trips to the Trobriand Islands between 1982 and 2012. The paper ends with a critical assessment of my Trobriand endeavor.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>В знаменитом вступлении к своей монографии «Аргонавты западной части Тихого океана» ( Argonauts of the Western Pacific ) Бронислав Малиновский (1922: 24f.) отмечает, что «собрание этнографических описаний, характерных нарративов, типичных высказываний, элементов фольклора и магических заклинаний должно быть представлено в виде corpus inscriptionum как собрания свидетельств туземного менталитета». Это одно из условий «понимания точки зрения туземцев, их отношения к жизни, их мировосприятия». Малиновскому удалось создать “ Corpus Inscriptionum Agriculturae Quriviniensis ” во втором томе своего труда «Коралловые сады и их магия» ( Coral Gardens and their Magic , 1935 Vol II: 79-342). Но он не смог представить холистический corpus inscriptionum тробрианцев. В ходе исследования языка, культуры и способов когниции тробрианцев я стремился заполнить эту этнолингвистическую нишу. В данной статье я рассказываю о том, как осуществлялся этот сложный и амбициозный проект, какими видами языковой и культурной компетенции мне пришлось овладеть и каким образом я планировал процесс сбора данных в течение 16 длительных и кратковременных полевых экспедиций на Тробрианские острова в 1982-2012 гг. В заключение статьи дается критический анализ моего Тробрианского проекта.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Trobriand Islands</kwd><kwd>Kilivila</kwd><kwd>language documentation</kwd><kwd>learning the local language as a prerequisite for field research</kwd><kwd>common ground</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Тробрианские острова</kwd><kwd>Киливила</kwd><kwd>языковая документация</kwd><kwd>изучение местного языка как условие проведения полевого исследования</kwd><kwd>взаимопонимание</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Baldwin, Bernard. 1971. Dokonikani. 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