Course10910549540 lectures
Tools and Technologies of Language Documentation
Prof. Bornini Lahiri and Prof. Dripta Piplai (Mondal) · IIT Kharagpur
About
This is a course on language documentation, a sub-field of linguistics. The growing global recognition of indigenous knowledge systems has brought an urge to document the dying languages. There are different projects going on all over the world including India where scholars from different fields are working together to save and document the dying languages. The aim of this course is to introduce the students to the issues related to language endangerment and various aspects of language documentation focused on the Indian scenario. The course along with making the students aware of the theories related to language documentation will also train them in data collection, data processing and creating various applications with the available data.
Intended audience: UG & PG Students of Linguistics & NLP, Research Scholars of Linguistics and related disciplines
Prerequisites: Not required but it will be helpful for the students if they have completed an introductory course in linguistics.
Lectures
Week 1
- Lecture 01 : Introduction
- Lecture 02 : Language Endangerment
- Lecture 03 : Introducing Language Shift and Ethnolinguistic Vitality
- Lecture 04 : More about Language Shift
- Lecture 05 : Linguistic diversity, biodiversity and wellbeing
Week 2
- Lecture 06 : Assessing Language Vitality
- Lecture 07 : Language Documentation
- Lecture 08 : Language attitude and vitality
- Lecture 09 : Evaluating Language Attitude
- Lecture 10 : Designing Questionnaire, Part 1
Week 3
- Lecture 11 : Designing Questionnaire, Part 2
- Lecture 12 : Documenting Oral Literature, Part 1
- Lecture 13 : Documenting Oral Literature, Part 2
- Lecture 14 : How to collect Ethnolinguistic Data?
- Lecture 15 : Methods for Remote Data Collection
Week 4
- Lecture 16 : Metadata & Other related information
- Lecture 17 : Different Approaches of Language Documentation
- Lecture 18 : Challenges in the Indian field, Part1
- Lecture 19 : Challenges in the Indian field, Part2
- Lecture 20 : Best Practices in the Field: Dos and Don'ts
Week 5
- Lecture 21 : Issues related to Ethics
- Lecture 22 : Sapir–Whorf hypothesis
- Lecture 23 : Fieldwork Conversations: Challenges, Precautions and Solutions
- Lecture 24 : Language documentation and the problem of standardization
- Lecture 25 : Script & Language
Week 6
- Lecture 26 : Data Processing & IPA
- Lecture 27 : IPA Transcription, Part I
- Lecture 28 : IPA Transcription, Part II
- Lecture 29 : IPA Transcription with Field Data
- Lecture 30 : Glossing Rules
Week 7
- Lecture 31 : Language Revitalization
- Lecture 32 : Creating Dictionaries
- Lecture 33 : Writing Grammar
- Lecture 34 : Creating pedagogical material
- Lecture 35 : More about the use of pedagogical material
Week 8
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Kharagpur
- Department
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Taught by
- Prof. Bornini Lahiri, Prof. Dripta Piplai (Mondal)
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Society and politics
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
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