There has been some discussion of what constitutes a collection among language documentation practitioners. Johnson (Citation: Johnson, 2004, p. 142) Johnson, H. (2004). Language documentation and archiving, or how to build a better corpus.
I present on the risks associated with large community projects with regard to the implications of Copyright. I also present some risk mitigating strategies.
Does the money we spend on ‘Language Documentation’ make a difference? I wonder if it wouldn’t be money better spent for language documentation and benefit to the academy, if organizations funding language documentation research for the academy would rather fund the collection of audio samples and video samples already appearning in grammars. In a way provide the support that modern grammars should have.
Communication with electronic text based devices is prolific in this era of globalization. In many socio-cultural contexts the ability to input digital text undergirds sustainable social practice of literacy. Simons and Lewis (2010) describe the …