POST: inField call for applications

[Rebekka Siemens]

*** Apologies for cross-postings ***


 


CALL FOR APPLICATIONS


 


Linguists, Students of Linguistics, Language Activists


 


INSTITUTE ON FIELD LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION


UC Santa Barbara


 


http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield/ 


 


Workshops: June 23rd - July 3, 2008


Field Training: July 7-August 1st, 2008


 


Application Deadline:  February 29, 2008


 


The Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation is
designed for field linguists, graduate students, and language activists to
receive training in current techniques and issues in language documentation,
language maintenance, and language revitalization.


 


WORKSHOPS 


Steps in language documentation


Models of language documentation and
revitalization


Language
activism


Introduction to linguistics for language
activists


Language resources and the community


Grant writing for language activists or
linguists


Web and WIKIs for language documentation


Audio recording


Video recording


Lexicography


Orthography 


Discourse Transcription


Principles
of archiving, metadata, media, file formats


Principles
of database design


Toolbox


Field phonetics


Life in the field


Problematizing the field experience


Intellectual property rights


 


FIELD TRAINING (Intensive field methods) 


Patricia Shaw            University
of British Columbia            Language:
Kwakwala


Tucker Childs            Portland
State University                        Language:
Mende


Carol Genetti            UC
Santa Barbara                                    Language:
TBA


 


FOR APPLICATION AND COMPLETE INFORMATION, POINT
YOUR BROWSER TO:


http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield/ 


 


SPONSORS            


U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S.
National Endowment for the Humanities: Documenting Endangered Languages Program                                    



 


University of
California, Santa Barbara: Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, the
Interdisciplinary Humanitie







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