In:The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations
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Chapter 2The development of language documentation in Indonesia
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Abstract
This chapter highlights the development of language documentation in Indonesia, both at
universities and at research institutions. It also presents the roles of linguistics associations in Indonesia as
actors of supporting language documentation. Finally, it discusses what it takes to build a national language archive,
and describes how a language documentation archiving project intends to preserve language diversity in Indonesia.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Language documentation at Indonesian universities
- 2.1Workshops on language documentation at Indonesian universities in collaboration with foreign researchers
- 2.2Teaching language documentation in linguistics programmes at Indonesian universities
- 3.Language documentation at research and language institutions
- 3.1The national research and innovation agency (BRIN)
- 3.2The language development and Cultivation Agency
- 3.3The role of linguistics associations
- 4.Creating a national language archive for Indonesia
- 5.Summary
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