Essentials of Language Documentation

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-3-11-018406-8
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 643 g

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 suggestions for the most common problems encountered in language documentation. Key features - textbook - introduction to Language Documentation - considers all common problems

Zielgruppe

Linguists, Dialectologists, Anthropologists as well as Students and Researchers in various regional studies and philologies such as African Studies, Indology, Turkology, Semitic Studies, and South American Studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gippert, Jost

Mosel, Ulrike

Himmelmann, Nikolaus P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors' preface Ch. 1: Language documentation: What is it and what is it good for? (Nikolaus P. Himmelmann)
Ch. 2: Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork and analysis (Arienne M. Dwyer)
Ch. 3: Fieldwork and community language work (Ulrike Mosel)
Ch. 4: Data and language documentation (Peter K. Austin)
Ch. 5: The ethnography of language and language documentation (Jane H. Hill)
Ch. 6: Documenting lexical knowledge (John B. Haviland)
Ch. 7: Prosody in language documentation (Nikolaus P. Himmelmann)
Ch. 8: Ethnography in language documentation (Bruna Franchetto)
Ch. 9: Linguistic annotation (Eva Schultze-Berndt)
Ch. 10: The challenges of segmenting spoken language (Nikolaus P. Himmelmann)
Ch. 11: Orthography development (Frank Seifart)
Ch. 12: Sketch grammar (Ulrike Mosel)
Ch. 13: Archiving challenges (Paul Trilsbeek, Peter Wittenburg)
Ch. 14: Linguistic documentation and the encoding of textual materials (Jost Gippert)
Ch. 15: Thick interfaces: mobilizing language documentation with multimedia (David Nathan) Abbreviations and resources
References
Indexes:

Language Index
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jost Gippert, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main, Germany; Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany;Ulrike Mosel, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany.