21.4856, Calls: Afroasiatic, Niger-Congo, Nilosaharan, Lang Documentation/UK

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Date: 30-Nov-2010
From: Oliver Bond [oliver.bond at soas.ac.uk]
Subject: Applied Language Documentation in Sub-Saharan Africa
 

	
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Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:39:21
From: Oliver Bond [oliver.bond at soas.ac.uk]
Subject: Applied Language Documentation in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Full Title: Applied Language Documentation in Sub-Saharan Africa 
Short Title: ALDSA 

Date: 14-May-2011 - 14-May-2011
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Oliver Bond
Meeting Email: oliver.bond at soas.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/aldsa/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic; Khoisan; Niger-Congo; Nilo-Saharan 

Call Deadline: 17-Jan-2011 

Meeting Description:

Keynote Speakers: 

Dr Jeff Good, University at Buffalo, NY
Dr Guy De Pauw, University of Antwerp and AfLAt (African Language Technology)

The last twenty years have seen a dramatic worldwide increase in funding for community-based linguistic fieldwork. This has largely been motivated by a concern for language endangerment, leading to the emergence of a new sub-discipline known as 'Documentary Linguistics' (Himmelmann 1998). Language Documentation is characterised by Woodbury (in press) as 'the creation, annotation, preservation, and dissemination of transparent records of a language'. While a considerable number of grants have funded the documentation of African languages (e.g. http://www.hrelp.org/languages/index.html) to date, research in applied language documentation is heavily skewed towards the linguistic situations found in Australia and the Americas. In these former settlement colonies, language revitalisation efforts benefit from levels of civil infrastructure and literacy that do not exist in large parts of Africa. As a consequence, this workshop aims to provide a scholarly environment for the exchange of ideas about the application of language documentation within the contextual setting of Africa in order to arrive at an understanding of how site-specific applications of language documentation can benefit language communities. As such, it aims to provide recommendations about technological choices and the structure and implementation of corpora, in order to increase the impact of documentation projects. 

Call for Papers:

Abstracts are invited for 30 minute presentations discussing how the central themes of language documentation relate to improving site-specific applied language documentation. These include:

-How corpus design might help/hinder local dissemination of language documentation outcomes;

-How new technology and media can be employed in applied language documentation to overcome prevailing problems with dissemination in community settings;

-Ways in which site-specific community participation in language documentation can lead to more effective application of language documentation goals;

-How multi-disciplinary approaches to language documentation might provide lasting impact in African language support and maintenance.

Each speaker will have 30 minutes for their presentation plus 10 minutes for discussion. All speakers will be asked to include practical recommendations for applied Language Documentation in sub-Saharan Africa as part of their talk. These recommendations will form the basis for a panel discussion at the end of the workshop.

Abstracts should be anonymous, a maximum of one page in length and 12pt font (not including any references). Abstracts should be sent to: elap at soas.ac.uk, by abstract deadline.

Abstract deadline: 17th January 2011
Abstract notification: 4th February 2011

This workshop is running as part of HRELP's Endangered Languages Week 2011.




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