{"product_id":"9783110184068","title":"Essentials of Language Documentation (mouton textbook) (2007. X, 424 p. 23 cm)","description":"\u003cp\u003e Language 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 ethics and data processing, guidelines for the basic annotation of digitally-stored multimedia corpora and a discussion on how to build and maintain a language archive. It combines theoretical and practical considerations and makes specific suggestions for the most common problems encountered in language documentation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey features \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003etextbook \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eintroduction to Language Documentation \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003econsiders all common problems\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors' preface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCh. 1: Language documentation: What is it and what is it good for? (Nikolaus P. Himmelmann)\nCh. 2: Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork and analysis (Arienne M. Dwyer)\nCh. 3: Fieldwork and community language work (Ulrike Mosel)\nCh. 4: Data and language documentation (Peter K. Austin)\nCh. 5: The ethnography of language and language documentation (Jane H. Hill)\nCh. 6: Documenting lexical knowledge (John B. Haviland)\nCh. 7: Prosody in language documentation (Nikolaus P. Himmelmann)\nCh. 8: Ethnography in language documentation (Bruna Franchetto)\nCh. 9: Linguistic annotation (Eva Schultze-Berndt)\nCh. 10: The challenges of segmenting spoken language (Nikolaus P. Himmelmann)\nCh. 11: Orthography development (Frank Seifart)\nCh. 12: Sketch grammar (Ulrike Mosel)\nCh. 13: Archiving challenges (Paul Trilsbeek, Peter Wittenburg)\nCh. 14: Linguistic documentation and the encoding of textual materials (Jost Gippert)\nCh. 15: Thick interfaces: mobilizing language documentation with multimedia (David Nathan)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations and resources\nReferences\nIndexes:\nLanguage Index\nSubject Index\n\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJost Gippert\u003c\/strong\u003e , Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt\/Main, Germany; \u003cstrong\u003eNikolaus P. Himmelmann\u003c\/strong\u003e, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany;\u003cstrong\u003eUlrike Mosel\u003c\/strong\u003e, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49167024226531,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9783110184068-1.jpg?v=1788428268","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9783110184068","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}