DOBES Workshop - Programme and List of Participants

A WORLD OF MANY VOICES

Interfaces in Language Documentation:

Linguistics, Anthropology, Speech Communities, and Technology

University of Frankfurt / Main

4th - 5th of September, 2004

Program schedule (definite, as of July 16th, 2004):

Saturday, Sep. 4th, 2004

General theme: The impact of language documentation techniques and technologies on linguistic methodologies and theories

Morning session
9.00 - 9.10	Formal opening by representatives of Frankfurt University and Volkswagen Foundation
9.10 - 10.00	*Leanne Hinton / Daryl Baldwin: "The uses of documentation in language revitalization efforts: Some issues and problems"*
10.00 - 10.30	Patricia A. Shaw / Larry Grant, “A delicate balance: dynamics of collaboration in critically endangered language documentation”
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee break
11.00 - 11.30	David Rood / Armik Mirzayan: “Are new digital recordings always helpful in the preservation of Severely Endangered Languages? The Case of Wichita”
11.30 - 12.00	Report: The present state of the DoBeS programme (“Documentation of Endangered Languages”, Volkswagen Foundation)
12.00 - 13.30	Lunch break

Afternoon session
13.30 - 14.00	Christian Lehmann / Hans-Jörg Bibiko: “A software platform for multimedial representation of linguistic data”
14.00 - 14.30	Hennie Brugman / Romuald Skiba: “Historical changes in linguistic annotation: from pieces of paper to computer files”
14.30 - 15.00	David Nathan: “Meet the interface: inscribing community participation in language resource software development”
15.00 - 15.30	Coffee break
15.30 - 16.00	Evgeniy Golovko: “A language divided by an international border: Problems of documentation and revitalisation”
16.00 - 16.30	Thomas Widlok: “Implications of ethnographic techniques for anthropological and linguistic theory”
16.30 - 17.20	*Felix Ameka: "Whose document?"*
19.00	Reception

Sunday, Sep. 5th, 2004

General theme: The influence of the speech communities' participation on the methods and goals of language documentation

Morning session
9.00 - 9.50	Maria Villalon: "Language Shift in Venezuela: Current Trends, Approaches and Actions"
10.00 - 10.30	Elena Benedicto and team: “Biri biri: Erasing the boundaries between linguist and language community through collaborative research in Nicaragua”
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee break
11.00 - 11.30	Raquel Guirardello / Aurore Monod Becquelin / Emmanuel de Vienne: “The joint work of linguists, anthropologists, and native speakers on the Trumai language: developing documentation strategies”
11.30 - 12.00	Veronica Grondona: “Language documentation and maintenance in two indigenous communities of Argentina”
12.00 - 13.30	Lunch break

Afternoon session
13.30 - 14.00	Inayatullah Faizi: “Development of Khowar as literacy language: Results of interaction between linguists and speech community in Chitral, Northern Pakistan”
14.00 - 14.30	Martin Gaenszle / Novel Kishore Rai / Vishnu Singh Rai: “Documenting language and cultural practice: Experiences with interdisciplinary research and community involvement in East Nepal”
14.30 - 15.00	Miriam Corris: “Literacy and orthography standardisation in Barupu”
15.00 - 15.30	Coffee break
15.30 – 19.00	Round table discussion General topics: a) Challenges and opportunities in the documentation of endangered languages as provided by modern technology and by changing political attitudes; b) Capacity building for the task of language documentation within the framework of university subjects
15.30	Introductory statements (six speakers)
16.40	Open discussion

Orientation map

The conference will take place in conjunction with a summer school on the documentation of endangered languages at the same venue (Frankfurt, Sep. 1-11^th, 2004).

For further questions, please contact Jost Gippert.