LINGUIST List 15.1993

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Message 1: BAAL colloquium 'Joint efforts, shared benefits - advances in methodology,good practice and theory building for and through language documentation'

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:36:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: fl2 <fl2soas.ac.uk>
Subject: BAAL colloquium 'Joint efforts, shared benefits - advances in methodology,good practice and theory building for and through language documentation'


BAAL colloquium 'Joint efforts, shared benefits - advances in methodology,good practice and theory building for and through language documentation'

Short Title: BAAL colloquium

Date: 10-Sep-2004 - 10-Sep-2004 Location: London, United Kingdom Contact: Friederike Luepke Contact Email: fl2soas.ac.uk Meeting URL: http://www.baal-conference.org.uk/index2.html

Linguistic Sub-field: Applied Linguistics ,Language Description ,Linguistic Theories ,Psycholinguistics ,Text/Corpus Linguistics ,Anthropological Linguistics ,Language Acquisition

Meeting Description:

Language documentation is a relatively new field of linguistics, whose standards are still emerging. The colloquium will engage colleagues from three fields of applied linguistics in an exchange with documentary linguists on the issues of methodology, good practice, and theory building in relation to language documentation. We will exchange with scholars in anthropology and ethnography ideas about what kinds of data they would like to see included in a documentation in order to allow an appraisal of cultural and social practices based on collected audio and video data. We will discuss with corpus linguists what tools we can use in order to manage and analyse corpora, and what research questions small field-based corpora can answer. Finally, we will engage with psycholinguists and language learning researchers on what kind of research questions we could answer through the use of stimuli and experiments, and how and to what degree we could document minority learner languages.

Programme

An anthropologist's suggestions for co-operative efforts between ethnographers and linguists working in small-scale societies - Mark Jamieson, Centro de Investigaciones y Documentacion de la Costa Atlantica (CIDCA), Nicaragua

Advances in linguistic theory issues through language documentation and psycholinguistic methodology: contributions from South-American languages - Raquel Guirardello-Damian, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen/Museu Em�lio Goeldi/University of Bristol

The use of corpora in the study of collocation and semantic prosody, exemplified through corpus data from English and Mandarin Chinese - Tony McEnery and Richard Xiao, Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language Lancaster University

An overview of the design and encoding principles underlying the British National Corpus project and how thy can be adapted to field-based corpora - Lou Burnard, Oxford University Computing Services

The possible contributions of field-based corpora to syntactic theory, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, and anthropological and applied linguistics - Friederike Luepke, Endangered Languages Academic Programme, SOAS

The use of elicitation games in corpus studies - Sonja Eisenbeiss, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex, and Ayumi Matsuo, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen

Three reasons to record speech-accompanying gestures when documenting an endangered language - Sotaro Kita, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol

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