{"id":1120,"date":"2008-04-30T11:45:40","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T03:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2008-04-30T11:45:40","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T03:45:40","slug":"documenting-and-revitalizing-austronesian-languages-free-online-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2008\/documenting-and-revitalizing-austronesian-languages-free-online-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Documenting and Revitalizing Austronesian Languages: free online book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nflrc.hawaii.edu\/ldc\/\"><em>Language Documentation &#038; Conservation<\/em><\/a>, a refereed, open-access journal sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center and published online by the University of Hawai\u2018i Press, has released its first online book: <a href=\"http:\/\/nflrc.hawaii.edu\/ldc\/sp01\/\"><em>Documenting and Revitalizing Austronesian Languages<\/em><\/a>, edited by D. Victoria Rau and Margaret Florey. <\/p>\n<p>Half of the chapters in the new book (ISBN 978-0-8248-3309-1) focus specifically on Austronesian languages of Taiwan. I have indicated those with <strong>bold<\/strong> text below. <\/p>\n<p>Contents: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Introduction: documenting and revitalizing Austronesian languages<\/strong><br \/>\nI. International capacity building initiatives<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The language documentation and conservation initiative at the University of Hawai&#8217;i at Manoa<\/li>\n<li>Training for language documentation: Experiences at the School of Oriental and African Studies<\/li>\n<li>SIL International and endangered Austronesian languages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>II. Documentation and revitalization activities<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Local autonomy, local capacity building and support for minority languages: Field experiences from Indonesia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Documenting and revitalizing Kavalan<\/strong> <\/li>\n<li><strong>E-learning in endangered language documentation and revitalization<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Indigenous language-informed participatory policy in Taiwan: A socio-political perspective<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Teaching and learning an endangered Austronesian language in Taiwan<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>III. Computational methods and tools for language documentation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WeSay, a tool for engaging communities in dictionary building<\/li>\n<li><strong>On designing the Formosan multimedia word dictionaries by a participatory process<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Annotating texts for language documentation with Discourse Profiler&#8217;s metatagging system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There have also been two issues of the journal issued to date, though neither of these has anything specific about languages spoken in Taiwan. <\/p>\n<p>This is indeed a promising beginning. I look forward to more such titles from the journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language Documentation &#038; Conservation, a refereed, open-access journal sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center and published online by the University of Hawai\u2018i Press, has released its first online book: Documenting and Revitalizing Austronesian Languages, edited by D. Victoria &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2008\/documenting-and-revitalizing-austronesian-languages-free-online-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,96,28,95,3,109],"tags":[546,547,855,829,548],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aborigine-languages","category-aborigines","category-languages","category-linguistics","category-taiwan","category-yami","tag-austronesian","tag-austronesian-languages","tag-linguistics","tag-taiwan","tag-taiwan-aborigines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}