Language archives: They’re not just for linguists any more

dc.contributor.author Holton, Gary
dc.date.accessioned 2012-07-05T23:33:07Z
dc.date.available 2012-07-05T23:33:07Z
dc.date.issued 2012-08
dc.description.abstract While many language archives were originally conceived for the purpose of preserving linguistic data, these data have the potential to inform knowledge beyond the narrow field of linguistics. Today language archives are being used by people without formal linguistic training for purposes not necessarily envisioned by the original creators of the language documentation. The DoBeS Archive is particularly well-placed to become an important resource for cultural documentation, since many of the DoBeS projects have been interdisciplinary in nature, documenting language within its broader social and cultural context. In this paper I present a perspective from a legacy archive created well before the modern era of digital language documentation exemplified by the DoBeS program. In particular, I describe two types of non-linguistic uses which are becoming increasingly important at the Alaska Native Language Archive.
dc.description.sponsorship National Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.identifier.citation Holton, Gary. 2012. Language archives: They’re not just for linguists any more. In Frank Seifart, Geoffrey Haig, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Dagmar Jung, Anna Margetts, and Paul Trilsbeek (eds). 2012. Potentials of Language Documentation: Methods, Analyses, and Utilization. 111-117. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9856211-0-0
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4523
dc.publisher University of Hawai'i Press
dc.relation.ispartofseries LD&C Special Publication
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License
dc.title Language archives: They’re not just for linguists any more
prism.endingpage 117
prism.startingpage 111
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