Summer Institute: InField

[Susan Penfield]

*** Apologies for cross-postings ***



CALL FOR APPLICATIONS



Linguists, Students of Linguistics, Language Activists



INSTITUTE ON FIELD LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION

UC Santa Barbara



http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield/



Workshops: June 23rd - July 3, 2008

Field Training: July 7-August 1st, 2008



Application Deadline:  February 29, 2008



The Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation is designed
for field linguists, graduate students, and language activists to receive
training in current techniques and issues in language documentation,
language maintenance, and language revitalization.



WORKSHOPS

Steps in language documentation

Models of language documentation and revitalization

Language activism

Introduction to linguistics for language activists

Language resources and the community

Grant writing for language activists or linguists

Web and WIKIs for language documentation

Audio recording

Video recording

Lexicography

Orthography

Discourse Transcription

Principles of archiving, metadata, media, file formats

Principles of database design

Toolbox

Field phonetics

Life in the field

Problematizing the field experience

Intellectual property rights



FIELD TRAINING (Intensive field methods)

Patricia Shaw   University of British Columbia   Language: Kwakwala

Tucker Childs   Portland State University                       Language:
Mende

Carol Genetti    UC Santa Barbara                                Language:
TBA



FOR APPLICATION AND COMPLETE INFORMATION, POINT YOUR BROWSER TO:

http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield/



SPONSORS

U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. National Endowment for the
Humanities: Documenting Endangered Languages Program




University of California, Santa Barbara: Division of Humanities and Fine
Arts, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and the Department of
Linguistics

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Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.

Department of English (Primary)
American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)
Second Language Acquisition & Teaching Ph.D. Program (SLAT)
Department of Language,Reading and Culture
Department of Linguistics
The Southwest Center (Research)
Phone for messages: (520) 621-1836


"Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought,
an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities."

                                                         Wade Davis...(on a
Starbucks cup...)
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