[lg policy] calls: Applied Language Documentation in Sub-Saharan Africa

[Harold Schiffman]

Applied Language Documentation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Short Title: ALDSA

Date: 14-May-2011 - 14-May-2011
Location: London, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Oliver Bond
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/aldsa/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Documentation;
Text/Corpus Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic; Khoisan; Niger-Congo; Nilo-Saharan

Call Deadline: 17-Jan-2011

Meeting Description:

Keynote Speakers:

Dr Jeff Good, University at Buffalo, NY
Dr Guy De Pauw, University of Antwerp and AfLAt (African Language Technology)

The last twenty years have seen a dramatic worldwide increase in
funding for community-based linguistic fieldwork. This has largely
been motivated by a concern for language endangerment, leading to the
emergence of a new sub-discipline known as 'Documentary Linguistics'
(Himmelmann 1998). Language Documentation is characterised by Woodbury
(in press) as 'the creation, annotation, preservation, and
dissemination of transparent records of a language'. While a
considerable number of grants have funded the documentation of African
languages (e.g. http://www.hrelp.org/languages/index.html) to date,
research in applied language documentation is heavily skewed towards
the linguistic situations found in Australia and the Americas. In
these former settlement colonies, language revitalisation efforts
benefit from levels of civil infrastructure and literacy that do not
exist in large parts of Africa. As a consequence, this workshop aims
to provide a scholarly environment for the exchange of ideas about the
application of language documentation within the contextual setting of
Africa in order to arrive at an understanding of how site-specific
applications of language documentation can benefit language
communities. As such, it aims to provide recommendations about
technological choices and the structure and implementation of corpora,
in order to increase the impact of documentation projects.


Call for Papers:

Abstracts are invited for 30 minute presentations discussing how the
central themes of language documentation relate to improving
site-specific applied language documentation. These include:

-How corpus design might help/hinder local dissemination of language
documentation outcomes;

-How new technology and media can be employed in applied language
documentation to overcome prevailing problems with dissemination in
community settings;

-Ways in which site-specific community participation in language
documentation can lead to more effective application of language
documentation goals;

-How multi-disciplinary approaches to language documentation might
provide lasting impact in African language support and maintenance.

Each speaker will have 30 minutes for their presentation plus 10
minutes for discussion. All speakers will be asked to include
practical recommendations for applied Language Documentation in
sub-Saharan Africa as part of their talk. These recommendations will
form the basis for a panel discussion at the end of the workshop.

Abstracts should be anonymous, a maximum of one page in length and
12pt font (not including any references). Abstracts should be sent to:
elapsoas.ac.uk, by abstract deadline.

Abstract deadline: 17th January 2011
Abstract notification: 4th February 2011

This workshop is running as part of HRELP's Endangered Languages Week 2011.

http://linguistlist.org/issues/21/21-4856.html

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