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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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The historical overview of the past century of Formosan documentation (starting with Japanese scholars, missionary documentaries and recent scientific work) is followed by defining the area of documentary linguistics and setting the relationships to other related disciplines. Taiwan preserves a rich heritage of language data to be documented and besides training the awareness of documenters (scholars and speakers) we reach out to solve the intercultural and other issues arising during the activity of documentation.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training)
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Learning outcomes
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Introducing the research methodology and results of this recently evolved branch of Lingustics (Documentary Linguistics) to advanced students of Asian Studies. Through an overview of technological development and documentation projects and results, the students should be enabled and motivated to do documentation of endangered languages and dialects, contribute to existing projects and should learn to find their own areas of interest. They should experience sessions of fieldwork and linguistic materials preservation in Taiwan, but also gain access to the international efforts to stabilize and document languages.
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Prerequisites
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For doctoral students only.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
active attendance, written paper and its defense
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Recommended literature
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Austin, P. K.; Sallabank (eds.). (2011). The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages. Cambridge.
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Batibo, H. M. (2009). Language Documentation as a Strategy for the Empowerment of the Minority Languages of Africa. Sommerville.
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Bowern, Clare. (2008). Linguistic Fieldwork: A Practical Guide. Basingstoke.
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Cablitz, G. H. (2011). Documenting Cultural Knowledge in Dictionaries of Endangered Languages. International Journal of Lexicography, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 446-462.
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Dobrin, Lise; Austin, Peter K.; Nathan, David. (2007). Dying to be counted: the commodification of endangered languages in documentary linguistics. London.
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Dorian, N. C. (2010). Documentation and Responsibility. Languange and Communication 30, pp. 179-185.
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Chelliah, Sh., Reuse, Willem de. (2011). Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork. Springer.
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