LINGUIST List: Vol-32-2839. Mon Sep 06 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.
Subject: 32.2839, Confs: Typology/USA
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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 00:52:00
From: Shobhana Chelliah [shobhana.chelliah at unt.edu]
Subject: Increasing Engagement with the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) through Social Media
Increasing Engagement with the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) through Social Media
Short Title: CoRSAL V
Date: 01-Oct-2021 - 01-Oct-2021
Location: Denton, USA
Contact: Shobhana Chelliah
Contact Email: shobhana.chelliah at unt.edu
Meeting URL: https://corsal.unt.edu/meetings
Linguistic Field(s): Typology
Meeting Description:
Social media plays a significant role in language revitalization efforts. We
learn more about this through our keynote address by Brook Danielle
Lillehaugen. CoRSAL depositors share how they are using social media to
increase engagement with their collections. We introduce the CoRSAL Excellence
Fund. We share news of our new collections and future plans.
Program:
8:00: Doors open
8:30-9:00: Greetings, Recap of our year
9:00-10:00: Keynote: Lillehaugen, Connecting digital language corpora and
stakeholders through social media
10:00-10:15: CoRSAL Excellence Fund inauguration
10:20-10:40: Social Media and CoRSAL, Merrion Dale
10:45-11:15: Panel discussion about use of social media for
revitalization/archives
Ken Van Bik, Prafulla Basumatary, Marjing Mayanglambam, Maaz Shaikh, (and
presentation by Stephen Morey by video)
11:15-11:30: Social Media and the UNT Digital Library, Mark Phillips
11:30-11:45 Plans for the future, Oksana Zavalina, Sadaf Munshi
11:45-12:00 Closing and thanks
Keynote:
Connecting digital language corpora and stakeholders through social media
Brook Danielle Lillehaugen (blilleha at haverford.edu; @blillehaugen)
Social media sites, such as Instagram and Twitter, have become spaces of
digital language activism, especially for speakers and learners of
marginalized languages (Jany 2018, Lillehaugen 2019, Belmar 2020). At the same
time, there are growing numbers of online digital language corpora available,
such those for South Asian languages (e.g. available through the CoRSAL
archives), languages of Australia (e.g. Digital Daisy Bates), and—as discussed
further in this talk—Valley Zapotec languages of Oaxaca, Mexico (through
Ticha,).
Ticha: a digital text explorer for Colonial Zapotec (Lillehaugen et al. 2016,
Broadwell et al. 2020) is a digital scholarship project committed to
co-creation with Zapotec individuals and intentional outreach to the larger
Zapotec community. The Ticha website makes a large corpus of Zapotec-language
archival manuscripts created between 1560-1750 freely available to the public.
Zapotec community members, both scholars and non-academics, use these archival
resources for various purposes, including language reclamation (Lopez 2020).
In this talk, I share strategies and results in facilitating intentional
educational communities on social media as a means of connecting the digital
corpus of Colonial Zapotec language texts with diverse stakeholders including
Zapotec language activists, Zapotec speakers and learners more broadly,
researchers, and students. While social media may not be appropriate for all
language reclamation contexts, in our experience it has been a powerful
opportunity for multi-directional learning and a means of subverting
traditional colonial boundaries, such as classroom walls (Lillehaugen and
Flores-Marcial 2022) and the framing of expertise.
Works Cited
https://corsal.unt.edu/corsal-2021-agenda
Event is free and online. Register at http://bit.ly/corsalV
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