Essentials of language documentation [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jost Gippert, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Ulrike Mosel

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (437 p.)
• Disciplina: 025.06/41
• Soggetto topico: Linguistics - Documentation; Language and languages - Documentation
• Soggetto non controllato: Language documentation; fieldwork
• Classificazione: ER 765
• Altri autori: GippertJost HimmelmannNikolaus <1959-> MoselUlrike
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-416) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Language documentation: What is it and what is it good for? -- Chapter 2 Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork and analysis -- Chapter 3 Fieldwork and community language work -- Chapter 4 Data and language documentation -- Chapter 5 The ethnography of language and language documentation -- Chapter 6 Documenting lexical knowledge -- Chapter 7 Prosody in language documentation -- Chapter 8 Ethnography in language documentation -- Chapter 9 Linguistic annotation -- Chapter 10 The challenges of segmenting spoken language -- Chapter 11 Orthography development -- Chapter 12 Sketch grammar -- Chapter 13 Archiving challenges -- Chapter 14 Linguistic documentation and the encoding of textual materials -- Chapter 15 Thick interfaces: Mobilizing language documentation with multimedia -- Back matter
• Sommario/riassunto: Language documentation is a rapidly emerging new field in linguistics which is concerned with the methods, tools and theoretical underpinnings for compiling a representative and lasting multipurpose record of a natural language. This volume presents in-depth introductions to major aspects of language documentation, including overviews on fieldwork ethics and data processing, guidelines for the basic annotation of digitally-stored multimedia corpora and a discussion on how to build and maintain a language archive. It combines theoretical and practical considerations and makes specific suggestio
• Titolo autorizzato: Essentials of language documentation
• ISBN: 9786613428387; 1-283-42838-5; 3-11-019773-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790328403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]