Language Documentation and Description, Volume 2, 2005 (fwd)

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Language Documentation and Description Volume 2
http://www.hrelp.org/publications/papers/volume2/

The second volume of ELAP's Working Papers, Language Documentation and
Description (Peter Austin ed.) will be available from March 2005 and
can be ordered now.

The volume is a collection of papers dealing with three topics in
language documentation:

-training and capacity building for endangered languages communities
-archiving
-multimedia documentation

Most of the papers arose from workshops held at SOAS in November 2003
and February 2004. They represent important contributions to the theory
and practice of the new field of language documentation by some of the
leading scholars in the field, along with contributions from younger
researchers. The volume will be of interest to anyone concerned with
documenting and describing languages.

Cost: £10.00 (postage included); for ordering information, see below.

Contents:

Introduction Peter K. Austin

Dictionary making in endangered speech communities - Ulrike Mosel

Language endangerment, language documentation and capacity building:
challenges from New Guinea - William A. Foley

Countering purism: confronting the emergence of new varieties in a
training program for community language workers - Margaret Florey

The need for capacity building in Mexico. Misión de Chichimecas, a case
study - Yolanda Lastra

Training speakers of indigenous languages of Latin America at a US
university Anthony C. Woodbury and Nora C. England

Linguistic study by speakers: efforts of an Institute 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

Language documentation and archiving, or how to build a better corpus -
Heidi Johnson

Documentation in practice: developing a linked media corpus of South
Efate - Nicholas Thieberger

Planning multimedia documentation - David Nathan

Reconceiving metadata: language documentation through thick and thin -
David Nathan and Peter K. Austin