LINGUIST List 17.1049

Fri Apr 07 2006

Books: Applied Ling: Gippert, Himmelmann, Mosel (Eds)

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Directory         1.    Julia Ulrich, Essentials of Language Documentation: Gippert, Himmelmann, Mosel (Eds)
Message 1: Essentials of Language Documentation: Gippert, Himmelmann, Mosel (Eds)
Date: 07-Apr-2006
From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com>
Subject: Essentials of Language Documentation: Gippert, Himmelmann, Mosel (Eds)


Title: Essentials of Language Documentation Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs Published: 2006 Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
                http://www.mouton-publishers.com

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110188643-1&fg=SK&l=E

Editor: Jost Gippert, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Editor: Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Ruhr University Bochum Editor: Ulrike Mosel, University of Kiel Hardback: ISBN: 3110188643 Pages: 424 Price: Europe EURO 78.00 Comment: for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 105.30
Paperback: ISBN: 3110184060 Pages: 424 Price: Europe EURO 19.95 Comment: for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 19.95
Abstract:

This volume presents in-depth and up-to-date introductions to all majoraspects of language documentation. This includes a definition of what itmeans to 'document a language', overviews on fieldwork ethics andpracticalities and data processing, discussions of how to compile alanguage documentation from anthropological and linguistic points of viewas well as long-term perspectives of and for language documentations. Thevolume combines theoretical and practical considerations and makes specificsuggestions for the most common problems encountered in languagedocumentations.

Language documentation: What is it and what is it good for? (Nikolaus P.Himmelmann)Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork and analysis (Arienne M.Dwyer)Fieldwork and community language work (Ulrike Mosel)Data and language documentation (Peter K. Austin)The ethnography of language and language documentation (Jane H. Hill)Documenting lexical knowledge (John B. Haviland)Prosody in language documentation (Nikolaus P. Himmelmann)Ethnography in language documentation (Bruna Franchetto)Linguistic annotation (Eva Schultze-Berndt)The challenges of segmenting spoken language (Nikolaus P. Himmelmann)Orthography development (Frank Seifart)Sketch grammar (Ulrike Mosel)Archiving challenges (Paul Trilsbeek, Peter Wittenburg)Linguistic documentation and the encoding of textual materials (Jost Gippert)Thick interfaces: mobilizing language documentation with multimedia (DavidNathan)

Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter:www.mouton-publishers.com

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Written In: English (eng )

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