Language Documentation Description Volume by Edited Peter Austin (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. 187 pages : 21 cm. Table of Contents Editor's Preface List of Contributors Countering purism: confronting the emergence of new varieties in a training program for community language workers Margaret Florey Language endangerment, language documentation and capacity building: challenges from New Guinea William A. Foley 28 Dictionary making in endangered speech communities Ulrike Mosel Linguistic study by speakers: efforts of an Institute 39 55 59 71 E.Annamalai Capacity building for some endangered languages of Russia: Voices from Tundra and Taiga Tjeerd de Graaf and Hidetoshi Shiraishi Capacity building in an African context Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Language planning in West Africa - who writes the script? Friederike Lüpke 90 The need for capacity building in Mexico: Misión de Chichimecas, a case study 108 Yolanda Lastra Training speakers of indigenous languages of Latin America at a US university 122 Anthony C. Woodbury and Nora C. England Language documentation and archiving, or how to build a better corpus 140 Heidi Johnson Planning multimedia documentation David Nathan Documentation in practice: developing a linked media corpus of South Efate Nicholas Thieberger Reconceiving metadata: language documentation through thick and thin David Nathan and Peter K. Austin.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 178 pages : 21 cm. Table of Contents (LDD 1) 1-2 Editor's Preface and List of Contributors (LDD 1) Peter K. Austin 3-4 Introduction (LDD 1) Peter K. Austin 6-14 Launch of the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project Lisbet Rausing 15-17 Endangered Languages: what should we do now? David Crystal 18-34 Defining documentary linguistics Anthony C. Woodbury 35-51 Speakers and documentation of endangered languages Colette Grinevald 52-72 Multimedia and documentation of endangered languages Eva A. Csató, David Nathan 73-84 Genre, register and language documentation in literate and preliterate communities William A. Foley 85-98 Documenting Lexicons: Chechen and Ingush Johanna Nichols, Ronald L. Sprouse 99-121 The DOBES model of language documentation Peter Wittenburg 122-139 Documenting languages: a view from the Brazilian Amazon Daniel L. Everett 140-158 The opportunity and challenge of language documentation in India E. Annamalai 159-167 Desperate straits for languages: how to survive Nicholas Ostler 168-178.