Language Documentation and Description Vol 7 now available

[Peter Austin]

*** apologies for cross-postings ***

Language Documentation and Description Volume 7 was published on 26 March 
2010, and is a special issue containing lectures on topics in language 
documentation and description from the 3L Summer School held at SOAS in 
2009. The lectures have been fully revised and expanded for publication, with 
added examples, illustrations, discussion questions and exercises, and 
suggestions for further reading.

Additional papers, by Peter Austin (practical advice on applying for research 
grants) and by David Nathan (on the role of audio in linguistics and 
documentation, based on a paper published in the journal of the International 
Association of Sound Archives), will add to the value of the volume for 
language documenters.

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 contents are:

* Editor's Introduction - Peter K. Austin
* Current Issues in Language Documentation - Peter K. Austin
* Communities and Ethics in Language Documentation - Peter K. Austin
* Research Methods in Language Documentation - Friederike Lüpke
* Documenting Sign Languages - Adam Schembri
* Language Documentation and Language Policy - Julia Sallabank
* Language Documentation and Archiving - David Nathan
* Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory - Peter Sells
* Language Documentation and Typology - Oliver Bond
* Sound and unsound practices in documentary linguistics: towards an 
epistemology for audio - David Nathan
* Applying for a Language Documentation Research Grant - Peter K. Austin


To purchase a copy of LDD 7 go to 
http://www.hrelp.org/publications/papers/volume7/index.html and follow the 
ordering instructions.