ELAP Workshop:
Multidisciplinary approaches to language documentation
Thank you to everyone who participated in this workshop.
Workshop:
The emerging field of language documentation is concerned with collecting and presenting
primary data on the linguistic practices and traditions of speech communities that are
recorded in their relevant social and cultural context (see Himmelmann 1998, Woodbury 2003).
Much of this work involves collaboration between specialists in a range of disciplines
and speech community members - often referred to as 'multidisciplinary research'.
This workshop explored the concept of multidisciplinary approaches to language documentation,
including both positive and negative aspects, aiming to identify areas where collaboration
can be successful and where it can fail. It addressed issues of what language
documentation research can contribute to individual disciplines themselves in terms of
theory, research methodology and practice.
Presenters and Topics:
| Speaker | Session | Title
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| Peter Austin, SOAS | Introduction |
| | Linda Barwick, University of Sydney | Ethnomusicology | The Musicologist's Wishlist: Issues, practices and practicalities in documenting endangered musics
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| | Gail Coelho, SOAS | Ethnobiology | Language documentation, ethnobiology, and ecology: areas of intersection
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| | Sonja Eisenbeiss, Essex University | Acquisition and elicitation techniques | The Role of Elicitation (Games) in Language Documentation
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| | Friederike Luepke, SOAS | Corpus linguistics | Small is beautiful- contributions of field-based corpora to different linguistic disciplines
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| | Jens Allwood, Department of Linguistics, Göteborg University | Corpus studies | Spoken and Multimodal Corpora
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| | Robert Munro, Endangered Languages Archive, SOAS | Information and communications technologies | Digital skills and obligations: is language documentation a new ICT discipline?
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| | Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Max Planck Institute Nijmegen | Gesture | Gestures and Language Documentation
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| | Thomas Widlok, Heidelberg University | Anthropology | Peril and perspicacity: prospects for the cross-disciplinary documentation work of anthropologists and linguists.
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References:
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann (1998) 'Documentary and descriptive linguistics' Linguistics 36. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Tony Woodbury (2003) 'Defining documentary linguistics' Language Documentation and Description 1. Peter Austin (ed) HRELP
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