I was thinking exactly the same thing... it is all very much in line with what the ethnography of speaking program was/is all about. And for that matter what Boas's intentions were a century ago... it just seems that in all of this the anthropologists are left out when they have been thinking about these issues for a long time... I guess there's not much communication between both disciplines... urgh!<div>
<br></div><div>Tania<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:29 PM, phil cash cash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pasxapu@dakotacom.net">pasxapu@dakotacom.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Interesting...my first impression is that this is so "Dell Hymes" in orientation. The natural outcome of this is to ask "what to do we really take grammar to be?" I am curois why it shold have taken so long for this semblance of question to emerge. This sort of steps outside the view of language as anything below the head. Too, many could never surrender their documentary "corpus" and he seems to channel this deep dilemma pretty well. It is the defining (pre-)occupation of the linguist with a purpose. I take a similar approach though much more qualitative...thought that is not the word that really describes it, rather it is more in-depth of the moment of recording as a form of intervention, capturing a slice of life, etc., etc. thnx,<br>
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On Dec 18, 2008, at 1:29 PM, susan.penfield wrote:<br>
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Here is a nice overview of the history and future direction for documentary linguistics. One of the central questions being addressed is what is the minimal kind of documentation that will be useful to future generations?<br>
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Gary F. Simons. The rise of documentary linguistics and a new kind of corpus<br>
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Presented at 5th National Natural Language Research Symposium, De La Salle<br>
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University, Manila, 25 Nov 2008.<br>
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<a href="http://pnglanguages.org/~simonsg/presentation/doc%20ling.pdf" target="_blank">http://pnglanguages.org/~simonsg/presentation/doc%20ling.pdf</a>]<br>
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Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.<br>
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E-mail: <a href="mailto:spenfiel@nsf.gov" target="_blank">spenfiel@nsf.gov</a>)<br>
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Department of English (Primary)<br>
Faculty affiliate in Linguistics, Language, Reading and Culture,<br>
Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT),<br>
American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)<br>
The Southwest Center<br>
University of Arizona,<br>
Tucson, Arizona 85721<br>
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