DocLing 2016

8-13 February 2016

Teaching staff

Peter Austin, Anthony Jukes, Toshihide Nakayama, David Nathan, Sonja Riesberg, Hideo Sawada

Location

Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. See also the ILCAA workshop page

Aims

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

Notes

Attendance of this course is limited to invitees.
Attendees should bring their laptop computers and recording equipment if practical.
This is a preliminary course outline

Readings

Below are some recommended links. There are also many good sources on the web - several are catalogued in Online Resources for Endangered Languages.

Annotated bibliographies

Austin, Peter K. 2012. Language Documentation. Oxford Bibliography Online.
Rice, Keren. 2011. Fieldwork. Oxford Bibliography Online.

Defining documentation

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

Fieldwork methods and ethics

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

Data management and archiving

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

EMELD School of Best Practice

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:

Mediatypes (audio, video)
Documentation Types (Annotation, Lexicon)
Conversion
Archives

Characters and encoding

Type IPA phonetic characters. This page help you type IPA characters. You can choose and edit IPA, and then copy your text to paste into another document.
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

Video and documentation

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

Multimedia and documentation

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

Microphones

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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