ENDANGERED LANGUAGES TRAINING
The Workshop aims to further develop the skills of participants in planning, collecting, managing and deploying language documentation, with a focus on considering documentation in community contexts. It will consist of a mix of lecture/practical and discussion sessions on topics including planning, ethics, field methodologies, media recording, annotation, data management, and sharing outcomes.
The Workshop includes project work where participants work in groups. Each group is assigned to a speaker-linguist of another language to work on creating and presenting documentation.
This page last updated 10th February 2016
10:00-11:20 | 11:40-13:00 | 14:00-15:20 | 15:40-17:00 | |
Mon Feb 8 |
Introduction to language documentation (PA PPT) | Methods, materials & genres (SR PDF, JB PDF, TN PPT) | Mobilisation: audience research & design (DN PPT, AJ PDF) | |
Tue Feb 10 |
Ethics (PA PPT quiz) | Data management & archiving (lecture & practical) (DN PPTa PPTb PPTc) | Group projects startup: assign groups, themes, consultants, mentors | |
Wed Feb 10 |
Audio (AJ, DN PPT) | Software (PA PPT) | Discussion forum - roles, languages & communities | Group work - plan & report |
Thu Feb 11 |
Still and moving image (HS, AJ) | Group clinic (topics as required) | Group work (facilitated) | |
Fri Feb 12 |
Discussion forum - documentation theory & methods | Group clinic (topics as required) | Group work (facilitated) | |
Sat Feb 13 |
Group work: finalise products and presentations | Group project presentations. See also outcomes page Closing session |
Readings from LDD7 | Annotated bibliographies | Defining documentation | Fieldwork methods and ethics | Archiving and data handling | EMELD School of Best Practice | Encoding | Video and documentation | Multimedia and documentation | Microphones
Below are some recommended links. There are also many good sources on the web - several are catalogued in Online Resources for Endangered Languages.
Austin, Peter K. 2012. Language Documentation. Oxford Bibliography Online.
Rice, Keren. 2011. Fieldwork. Oxford Bibliography Online.
Himmelmann, Nikolaus 2002: Documentary and descriptive linguistics (full version). In Osamu Sakiyama and Fubito Endo eds. Lectures on Endangered Languages: 5 (Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim, Kyoto, 2002)
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2005/reading/himmelmann.pdf
Woodbury, Anthony. 2003. Defining Documentary Linguistics
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2008_6/resources/woodbury.pdf
Woodbury, Anthony. 2011 Language Documentation. In Peter K. Austin and Julia Sallabank (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages, 159-186. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Dobrin, Lise and Josh Berson. 2011. Speakers and language documentation. In Peter K. Austin and Julia Sallabank (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages, 187-211. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Munro, Pamela. 2002. Chapter 6: Field linguistics. In Mark Aranoff and Janie Rees-Miller (eds.) The Handbook of Linguistics. Loindon: Blackwell Publishing. Blackwell Reference Online. 22 January 2013
Rice, Keren. 2006. Ethical issues in linguistic fieldwork. Journal of Academic Ethics 4: 123-155
Czaykowska-Higgins, Ewa. 2009. Research Models, Community Engagement, and Linguistic Fieldwork: Reflections on Working within Canadian Indigenous Communities. Language Documentation and Conservation 3(1): 15-50.
AIATSIS: Guidelines for Ethical Research in Indigenous Studies
http://aiatsis.gov.au/research/ethical-research/guidelines-ethical-research-australian-indigenous-studies
Peter Austin: Documentation and your data
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2008_6/resources/austin_documentation.pdf (passworded)
Heidi Johnson: Language Documentation and Archiving, or How to Build a Better Corpus
http://www.elpublishing.org/itempage/26
Bird and Simons: Seven dimensions of portability
http://www.language-archives.org/documents/portability.pdf
David Nathan and Peter Austin: Reconceiving metadata: language documentation standards through thick and thin
http://www.elpublishing.org/itempage/29
A large amount of material can be found at the E-MELD School of Best Practice (http://www.emeld.org/school/). We recommend reading at least the following sections from the Classroom:
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http://ipa.typeit.org/full/
Jost Gippert: Linguistic Documentation and The Encoding of Textual Materials
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2005/reading/gippert_encoding.pdf (passworded)
Jukka Korpela: A tutorial on character code issues
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal (Language Description and "The New Paradigm": What Linguists May Learn from Ethnocinematographers
http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/4475/7/dimmendaal.pdf
David Nathan: Planning multimedia documentation
http://www.elpublishing.org/itempage/27
David Nathan and Eva Csató: Multimedia: A Community-Oriented Information and Communication Technology
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/eldp2008_6/resources/nathan-csato.pdf
David Nathan's article on microphones
http://www.hrelp.org/archive/advice/microphones.html
Peter Patrick: Beginners’ Notes about Using Microphones
http://courses.essex.ac.uk/LG/LG554/UsingMics.html
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