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Essentials of Language Documentation / ed. by Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Ulrike Mosel, Jost Gippert.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 178Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2008]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110188646
  • 9783110197730
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 025.06/41 22
LOC classification:
  • P128.D63 E85 2006eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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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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

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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

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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