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Mediating language documentation
2014As a discipline, archiving is often presented in terms of the competing goals of preservation and access. One could argue that this disconnect between access and usage need not concern an archive. Yet, to dismiss the issue of usage by arguing that materials may eventually become useful is to ignore the great need for immediately useful language ...
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Language in Medical Documentation—Reply
JAMA, 2013I agree with Mssrs Dittmar and Weller that there is a trade-off between medical jargon and vernacular language. All professions develop their own language out of necessity to communicate with colleagues quickly and to protect themselves from outsiders.
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Language documentation and language typology
2014Typology is a sub-discipline of linguistics originally conceived around the notion that there is a fundamental basic unity underlying the diversity of the world’s languages. Typologists believe that there are certain core properties that languages have in common which can be formulated as generalisations about language in the form of language ...
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Interdisciplinary Language Documentation
2018Documenting the linguistic practices of an endangered-language community necessarily crosses the boundaries of fields other than linguistics, as these practices encode a rich knowledge of the natural world. In pursuing a language documentation project linguists will encounter questions which cross into the domains of biology, astronomy, geology ...
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This chapter is an introduction to documentary sign linguistics. I am going to focus mostly on the British Sign Language Corpus Project, based at the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre, University College London — in particular, issues to do with data collection (e.g., the Observer’s Paradox) and the notion of having an open access ...
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This chapter is an introduction to documentary sign linguistics. I am going to focus mostly on the British Sign Language Corpus Project, based at the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre, University College London — in particular, issues to do with data collection (e.g., the Observer’s Paradox) and the notion of having an open access ...
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Documentation of Australian languages
2023AbstractPrimary records of Australian Indigenous languages can provide both a kind of information and an immediacy of connection with the speakers that are not so apparent in derived analytical works. Locating primary records is often a difficult task, but digitizing can make records more accessible.
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Executable Documentation: From Documentation Languages to Purpose-Specific Languages
2022Tim Tegeler +5 more
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Essentials of Language Documentation
2006Language documentation is a rapidly emerging new field in linguistics which is concerned with the methods, tools and theoretical underpinnings for compiling a representative and lasting multipurpose record of a natural language. This volume presents in-depth introductions to major aspects of language documentation, including overviews on fieldwork ...
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Lexicography and language documentation: Urgency, challenges, possibilities
LexicographyThe alarming rate at which minority languages are vanishing around the globe has engendered the field of language documentation, of which lexicography is an essential component. In this context, several major developments have emerged in the last two decades, including the importance of involving and collaborating with the speech community, as well as
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