inField Application Available
Rebekka Siemens
rebekkasiemens at UMAIL.UCSB.EDU
Mon Jan 21 06:54:32 UTC 2008
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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
Humanities Center, and the Department of Linguistics
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