Date: 05-May-2008 From: Akiemi Glenn <uhpbookshawaii.edu> Subject: Documenting and Revitalizing Austronesian Languages: Rau, Florey (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Documenting and Revitalizing Austronesian Languages
Series Title: Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 1
Published: 2007
Publisher: University of Hawai‘i Press
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu
Editor: D. Victoria Rau
Editor: Margaret Florey
Electronic: ISBN: 9780824833091 Pages: 245 Price: ---- Comment: open access
Abstract:
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: Documenting and revitalizing Austronesian languages Margaret Florey
Part I. International Capacity Building Initiatives
Chapter 2. The language documentation and conservation initiative at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Kenneth L. Rehg
Chapter 3. Training for language documentation: Experiences at the School of Oriental and African Studies Peter K. Austin
Chapter 4. SIL International and endangered Austronesian languages J. Stephen Quakenbush
Part II. Documentation and Revitalization Activities
Chapter 5. Local autonomy, local capacity building and support for minority languages: Field experiences from Indonesia I Wayan Arka
Chapter 6. Documenting and revitalizing Kavalan Fuhui Hsieh and Shuanfan Huang
Chapter 7. E-learning in endangered language documentation and revitalization D. Victoria Rau and Meng-Chien Yang
Chapter 8. Indigenous language-informed participatory policy in Taiwan: A socio-political perspective Yih-Ren Lin, Lahwy Icyeh, and Da-Wei Kuan (Daya)
Chapter 9. Teaching and learning an endangered Austronesian language in Taiwan D. Victoria Rau, Hui-Huan Chang, Yin-Sheng Tai, Zhen-Yi Yang, Yi-Hui Lin, Chia-Chi Yang, and Maa-Neu Dong
Part III. Computational Methods and Tools for Language Documentation
Chapter 10. WeSay, a tool for engaging communities in dictionary building Eric Albright and John Hatton
Chapter 11. On designing the Formosan multimedia word dictionaries by a participatory process Meng-Chien Yang, Hsin-Ta Chou, Huey-Shiuan Guo, and Gia-Pyng Chen
Chapter 12. Annotating texts for language documentation with Discourse Profiler's metatagging system Phil Quick
Linguistic Field(s):
Applied Linguistics
Discipline of Linguistics
Sociolinguistics