Reflections on language community training

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dc.contributor.authorFitzgerald, Colleen M.
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-26T00:03:02Z
dc.date.available2019-02-26T00:03:02Z
dc.date.issued2018-12-01
dc.description.abstractI reflect upon four decades of language community training, treating Watahomigie & Yamamoto (1992) and England (1992) as the starting point. Because the training activities these papers report began in the 1970s, there is a convincing and growing literature on training, including work published in the years since Himmelmann’s (1998) article. The upshot of my reflections is this central point: Language documentation is better when it occurs alongside an active training component. Underlying this point is an acknowledgement that linguists and communities are engaged in mutual training, and in fact, that a binary distinction between linguist and community member is a false dichotomy. The Chickasaw Model, a model that formalizes training, linguistic analysis, documentation, and revitalization as a feedback loop (cf. Fitzgerald & Hinson 2013; 2016), offers a way to capture a fully integrated approach to training. I conclude with nine significant contributions growing out of the training literature.
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.identifier.citationFitzgerald, Colleen M.. 2018. Reflections on language community training. 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 86-99] Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9973295-3-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/24811
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press
dc.relation.ispartofseriesLD&C Special Publication
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License
dc.subjecttraining
dc.subjectrevitalization
dc.subjectfeedback loop
dc.subjectcommunity-based research models
dc.subjectdocumentation
dc.titleReflections on language community training
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