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Africa's Endangered Languages

open access: yes, 2017
Relatively little is known about Africa’s endangered languages. In an era when we are racing against time to study and preserve the world’s threatened languages before they go extinct, a disproportionately low amount of research and funding is devoted to
Jason Kandybowicz, Harold Torrence
exaly   +3 more sources

Collaborative Issues in Language Variation Documentaries

Language and Linguistics Compass, 2010
Abstract Documentaries about language variation create a unique opportunity for linguists to collaborate with communities and producers in the representation of community language. At the same time, they present a series of challenges that extend from the selection of speakers who represent the community to the final editing decisions
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A documentary ethnography of a Blackfoot language course

2013
This chapter documents the development of a university-level Blackfoot language course in which many of the students are linguistic inheritors (Rampton 1990) of Blackfoot. In attempting to integrate “the study of the culture of language into documentary linguistics” (Hill 2006: 113), we observe how varied language ideological patterns among speakers ...
Annabelle Chatsis   +2 more
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Management of Language Boundaries: Autoethnography by a Documentary Film about an Arvanitika Language Community in Greece

GLOCAL Conference Proceedings, 2023
Arvanitika is a threatened language that is spoken in very few areas of Greece. Greece's Arvanitika -speaking communities, scattered in suburban areas, mainly in southern mainland and island Greece. These were founded in the Late Middle Ages during the Byzantine and Frankish conquest of Ottoman rule in the Southern Balkans, and merged with the new ...
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The Contribution of an Environmental Documentary Movie on the Development of Vocabulary of Turkish Language Learners: Home Documentary

2022
The current study, which investigates the contribution of environment-themed documentary films to the vocabulary development of students learning Turkish as a foreign language, is an experimental and quantitative (survey research) research. This study aims to determine the effect of watching aforementioned type of documentary on the development of ...
ALI, Mohammad Asif, BAŞTÜRK, Şükrü
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THE GAMKONORA DOCUMENTARY FILM: AN EXPERIENCE OF LANGUAGE REVITALISATION IN NORTH HALMAHERA

Linguistik, Terjemahan, Sastra (LINGTERSA), 2021
The documentary film is considered as a proper audio-visual medium for documenting traditions, but it has both advantages and challenges. Both issues explained in the paper based on the experience of making a cultural event documentary film of the Gamkonora people (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCewhQOaNOk).
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The Development of Documentary Film Language from the Silent Era to the Present

International Journal of Research Publication and Reviews, 2022
Documentary films are aesthetical representations of actual material or the direct sound recorded with video and presented aesthetically with the help of editing. The language of fiction film is very close to that of documentaries, as these two are the audio-visuals. Prior to the film made by Robert Flaherty, The Nanook of the North people used to call
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World History in Video: English-Language Documentaries

The Charleston Advisor, 2013
World History in Video is a database from Alexander Street Press. It is a source for hundreds of videos on historical events, ranging from ancient to modern times, in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, Oceana, and elsewhere. However, the majority of these videos are on European, Asian, and North American history, and as a consequence this database ...
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Documentary linguistics: A language philology of the 21st century

2016
Language Documentation and Description, Vol. 13 (2016)
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