
- 434 pages
- English
- PDF
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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
- Frontmatter
- 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
- Backmatter