Overview for Documentation

[Tania Granadillo]

I was thinking exactly the same thing... it is all very much in line with
what the ethnography of speaking program was/is all about. And for that
matter what Boas's intentions were a century ago... it just seems that in
all of this the anthropologists are left out when they have been thinking
about these issues for a long time... I guess there's not much communication
between both disciplines... urgh!
Tania

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:29 PM, phil cash cash <pasxapu at dakotacom.net>wrote:

> Interesting...my first impression is that this is so "Dell Hymes" in
> orientation.   The natural outcome of this is to ask "what to do we really
> take grammar to be?"  I am curois why it shold have taken so long for this
> semblance of question to emerge.  This sort of steps outside the view of
> language as anything below the head.  Too, many could never surrender their
> documentary "corpus" and he seems to channel this deep dilemma pretty well.
>  It is the defining (pre-)occupation of the linguist with a purpose.  I take
> a similar approach though much more qualitative...thought that is not the
> word that really describes it, rather it is more in-depth of the moment of
> recording as a form of intervention, capturing a slice of life, etc., etc.
> thnx,
> Phil
>
>
> On Dec 18, 2008, at 1:29 PM, susan.penfield wrote:
>
>
>> Here is a nice overview of the history and future direction for
>> documentary linguistics. One of the central questions being addressed is
>> what is the minimal kind of documentation that will be useful to future
>> generations?
>>
>>
>> Gary F. Simons. The rise of documentary linguistics and a new kind of
>> corpus
>>
>> Presented at 5th National Natural Language Research Symposium, De La Salle
>>
>> University, Manila, 25 Nov 2008.
>>
>> [
>>
>> http://pnglanguages.org/~simonsg/presentation/doc%20ling.pdf]
>> --
>>
>> **********************************************************************************************
>> Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.
>> (Currently on leave to the National Science Foundation.
>> E-mail: spenfiel at nsf.gov)
>>
>>
>> Department of English (Primary)
>> Faculty affiliate in Linguistics, Language, Reading and Culture,
>> Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT),
>> American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)
>> The Southwest Center
>> University of Arizona,
>> Tucson, Arizona 85721
>>
>>
>>


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Tania Granadillo
tgranadillo at gmail.com
Assistant Professor
Anthropology and Linguistics UWO
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