In:Language Documentation: Practice and values
Edited by Lenore A. Grenoble and N. Louanna Furbee
[Not in series 158] 2010
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 25 November 2010
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.158.toc
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Table of contents
Contributors
Part 1. Praxis and values
Language documentation: Theory and practice
The linguist’s responsibilities to the community of speakers: Community-based research
Language documentation: Whose ethics?
Part 2. Adequacy in documentation
Adequacy in documentation
Necessary and sufficient data collection: Lessons from Potawatomi legacy documentation
Documenting different genres of oral narrative in Cora (Uto-Aztecan)
Constructing adequate language documentation for multifaceted cross-linguistic data: A case study from the Virtual Center for Study of Language Acquisition
Part 3. Documentation technology
Valuing technology: Finding the linguist’s place in a new technological universe
Using the E-MELD School of Best Practices to create lasting digital documentation
Sharing data in small and endangered languages: Cataloging and metadata, formats, and encodings
Representing minority languages and cultures on the World Wide Web
Part 4. Models of successful collaborations
Beyond expertise: The role of the linguist in language revitalization programs
Models of successful collaboration
Working with language communities in unarchiving: Making the J. P. Harrington notes accessible
Saving languages, saving lives: Tojolabal (Mayan) language revival within a health research NGO
Language documentation in the Tohono O’odham community
Documentation of pragmatics and metapragmatics: Language shift and pragmatic change in the Hmong language in Wisconsin
Part 5. Training and careers in field linguistics
Training graduate students and community members for native language documentation
Native speakers as documenters: A student initiative at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
part 6. Conclusion
Language documentation and field linguistics: The state of the field
Selected online resources
Name index
General index
