Meeting the transcription challenge

dc.contributor.authorHimmelmann, Nikolaus P.
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-26T00:03:32Z
dc.date.available2019-02-26T00:03:32Z
dc.date.issued2018-12-01
dc.description.abstractThe major challenge for language documentation in the next decade or two is what could be called the transcription challenge. This is a multilayered challenge that goes far beyond the practical challenge of speeding up the transcription process. Transcription, as practiced in language documentation, involves language making and changes the language ecology. Despite its centrality to language documentation, transcription remains critically undertheorized and understudied. Further progress in language documentation, and ultimately also its overall success, crucially depends on further investigating and understanding the transcription process, broadly conceived.
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.identifier.citationHimmelmann, Nikolaus P.. 2018. Meeting the transcription challenge. In McDonnell, Bradley, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, and Gary Holton. (Eds.) Reflections on Language Documentation 20 Years after Himmelmann 1998. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication no. 15. [PP 33-40] Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9973295-3-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/24806
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press
dc.relation.ispartofseriesLD&C Special Publication
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License
dc.subjecttranscription and translation
dc.subjectdocumentation theory
dc.subjectlanguage making
dc.subjectmetalinguistic knowledge
dc.subjectwritten vs. spoken language
dc.titleMeeting the transcription challenge
prism.endingpage55
prism.startingpage39

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