Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Part 1. Praxis and values
6. Language documentation 3
7. The linguist’s responsibilities to the community of speakers 25
8. Language documentation 37
9. Part 2. Adequacy in documentation
10. Adequacy in documentation 51
11. Necessary and sufficient data collection 67
12. Documenting different genres of oral narrative in Cora (Uto-Aztecan) 75
13. Constructing adequate language documentation for multifaceted cross-linguistic data 89
14. Part 3. Documentation technology
15. Valuing technology 111
16. Using the E-MELD School of Best Practices to create lasting digital documentation 133
17. Sharing data in small and endangered languages 147
18. Representing minority languages and cultures on the World Wide Web 159
19. Part 4. Models of successful collaborations
20. Beyond expertise 173
21. Models of successful collaboration 193
22. Working with language communities in unarchiving 213
23. Saving languages, saving lives 221
24. Language documentation in the Tohono O’odham community 231
25. Documentation of pragmatics and metapragmatics 241
26. Part 5. Training and careers in field linguistics
27. Training graduate students and community members for native language documentation 255
28. Native speakers as documenters 275
29. part 6. Conclusion
30. Language documentation and field linguistics 289
31. Selected online resources 311
32. Name index 315
33. General index 337