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Titolo |
Language documentation [[electronic resource] ] : practice and values / / edited by Lenore A. Grenoble ; N. Louanna Furbee |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-89578-8 |
9786612895784 |
90-272-8783-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (358 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GrenobleLenore A |
Furbee-LoseeLouanna |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Corpora (Linguistics) |
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) |
Computational linguistics |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Language Documentation; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Contributors; Preface; 1. The origin of this book; 2. The conversations and conference; 2.1 Participants; 2.2 The LSA conversations; Appropriate roles for the LSA; 3. The conference on language documentation: Theory, practice, and values; 4. Conclusion; Part1 Praxis and values; Language documentation; 1. Theory and practice; 1.1 The theory of linguistic description and the practice of language documentation; 1.2 The dilemma of practice in absence of theoretical guidance |
2. The metamodels approach: Emerging consensus for Tojolabal evidentials3. Sharing responsibility; 4. Chiwere adoptive kinship: Emergent phenomena, negotiated consensus; 5. Conclusion; 5.1 Trends; 5.2 Changes in style of research and argument; The linguist's responsibilities to the community of speakers; 1. The changing world of ethical responsibilities, Part I: The linguistic community; 2. The changing world of ethical responsibilities, Part II: Aboriginal research paradigms in the Canadian context; 3. The Canadian context: |
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Development of new research programs |
4. A comparison with programs elsewhere5. Consequences for linguistic documentation; 6. Responsibilities to the community of speakers; Language documentation; Prologue; 1. Characterizing languages in terms of their endangerment; 2. Language documentation; 3. Ownership and access; 4. Endangered languages; 5. Archived materials; 6. Goals for collaboration; Part 2Adequacy in documentation; Adequacy in documentation; 1. Introduction; 2. What is documentation?; 3. What is the role of description vis-à-vis documentation?; 4. What gets documented?; 5. The role of uniqueness in documentation |
6. Who gets documented?7. Who does the documenting?; 8. Who is the documentation for?; 9. What does "adequacy in documentation" mean specifically for the work of linguists?; 10. Conclusion; Necessary and sufficient data collection; 1. Introduction; 2. Our Boasian legacy; 3. Potawatomi legacy documentation; 4. Lessons for modern endangered language documentation; Documenting different genres of oral narrative in Cora (Uto-Aztecan); 1. Introduction; 2. Two genres of Cora narrative; 2.1 The genre níukari hí'iwahkari; 2.2 The genre níukari míme'ekan; 3. Comparisons and conclusions |
Constructing adequate language documentation for multifaceted cross-linguistic data1. Theoretical issues; 1.1 Data creation; 1.2 Language-acquisition data; 2. Values and practices; 3. Training; 4. Case study; 4.1 Interlibrary collaboration; 4.2 Institutional repository; 5. Technology: The DTA tool; 6. Conclusions; Appendix 1; Virtual Center; Cornell University Virtual Linguistics Laboratory; Data-Creation Steps; Appendix 2; Data Transcription and Analysis (DTA) Tool Sample Screens; Part 3Documentation technology; Valuing technology; 1. Introduction; 2. Technology and linguistics |
2.1 Introduction |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Language documentation, also often called documentary linguistics, is a relatively new subfield in linguistics which has emerged in part as a response to the pressing need for collecting, describing, and archiving material on the increasing number of endangered languages. The present book details the most recent developments in this rapidly developing field with papers written by linguists primarily based in academic institutions in North America, although many conduct their fieldwork elsewhere. The articles in this volume - position papers and case studies - focus on some of the |
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