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<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; "><i>Language Documentation and Description Volume 7</i> is a special issue containing lectures on topics in language documentation and description from the <a href="http://www.hrelp.org/events/3L/index.html" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(89, 138, 146); font-weight: bold; ">3L Summer School</a> held at SOAS in June-July 2009. The lectures have been revised and expanded for publication, with added examples, diagrams, tutorial questions and exercises, and suggestions for further reading. Additional papers, by Peter Austin (practical advice on applying for a research grant) and David Nathan (on the role of audio, based on a paper published in the <a href="http://www.iasa-web.org/index.asp" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(89, 138, 146); font-weight: bold; ">International Association of Sound Archives</a> journal), will make the volume particularly useful to aspiring language documenters.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; ">The lectures and papers represent state-of-the-art discussions of the theory and practice of language documentation and description by leading exponents, and the volume will be of interest to anyone teaching or learning about documenting and describing languages. The volume will be published in early 2010.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; ">The price for LDD 7 is normally GBP 10 however <b>until 31 January 2010 only</b>, we are offering a special pre-order price of GBP 7.50 (plus P & P), a 25% discount. To order use the <a href="http://www.hrelp.org/publications/papers/orderformLDD7.doc" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(89, 138, 146); font-weight: bold; ">discount order form</a> [.doc], or visit our website (<a href="http://www.hrelp.org/publications/papers/volume7/index.html">www.hrelp.org/publications/papers/volume7/index.html</a>).</p>
<p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; "><b>Contents</b></p></div><div class="entry-body" style="clear: both; "><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; "><i>Editor's Introduction</i> – Peter K. Austin<br>
<i>Current Issues in Language Documentation</i> – Peter K. Austin<br><i>Communities and Ethics in Language Documentation</i> – Peter K. Austin<br><i>Research Methods in Language Documentation</i> – Friederike Luepke<br><i>Documenting Sign Languages</i> – Adam Schembri<br>
<i>Language Documentation and Language Policy</i> – Julia Sallabank<br><i>Language Documentation and Archiving</i> – David Nathan<br><i>Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory</i> – Peter Sells<br><i>Language Documentation and Typology</i> – Oliver Bond<br>
<i>Roles and methods for audio in language documentation</i> – David Nathan<br><i>Applying for a Language Documentation Research Grant</i> – Peter K. Austin<br><i>List of resources</i></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; ">
Volumes 1 to 6 of <i>Language Documentation and Description</i> are also available for purchase from our <a href="http://www.hrelp.org/publications/papers/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(89, 138, 146); ">website</a>. Orders for multiple copies to the same address attract a discount – contact elap -AT- <a href="http://soas.ac.uk">soas.ac.uk</a> for details.</p>
</div></span><div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Prof Peter K. Austin<br>Marit Rausing Chair in Field Linguistics<br>Director, Endangered Languages Academic Program<br>Department of Linguistics, SOAS<br>Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square<br>
London WC1H 0XG<br>United Kingdom<br><br>web: <a href="http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/staff/index.php?cd=pa">http://www.hrelp.org/aboutus/staff/index.php?cd=pa</a><br>
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