Essentials of Language Documentation
eBook - PDF

Essentials of Language Documentation

  1. 437 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Essentials of Language Documentation

About this book

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

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Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Contents
  3. Chapter 1 Language documentation: What is it and what is it good for?
  4. Chapter 2 Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork and analysis
  5. Chapter 3 Fieldwork and community language work
  6. Chapter 4 Data and language documentation
  7. Chapter 5 The ethnography of language and language documentation
  8. Chapter 6 Documenting lexical knowledge
  9. Chapter 7 Prosody in language documentation
  10. Chapter 8 Ethnography in language documentation
  11. Chapter 9 Linguistic annotation
  12. Chapter 10 The challenges of segmenting spoken language
  13. Chapter 11 Orthography development
  14. Chapter 12 Sketch grammar
  15. Chapter 13 Archiving challenges
  16. Chapter 14 Linguistic documentation and the encoding of textual materials
  17. Chapter 15 Thick interfaces:Mobilizing language documentation with multimedia
  18. Backmatter

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