OLAC Record oai:scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu:10125/24601

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Title:		Beyond the Ancestral Code: Towards a Model for Sociolinguistic Language Documentation
Bibliographic Citation:		Childs, Tucker, Good, Jeff, Alice, Mitchell; 2014-06; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24601.
Creator:		Childs, Tucker
		Good, Jeff
		Alice, Mitchell
Date (W3CDTF):		2014-06
Description:		Most language documentation efforts focus on capturing lexico-grammatical information on individual languages. Comparatively little effort has been devoted to considering a language’s sociolinguistic contexts. In parts of the world characterized by high degrees of multilingualism, questions surrounding the factors involved in language choice and the relationship between ‘communities’ and ‘languages’ are clearly of interest to documentary linguistics, and this paper considers these issues by reporting on the results of a workshop held on sociolinguistic documentation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Over sixty participants from Africa and elsewhere discussed theoretical and methodological issues relating to the documentation of language in its social context. Relevant recommendations for projects wishing to broaden into the realm of sociolinguistic language documentation include: a greater emphasis on conversational data and the documentation of naturally occurring conversation; developing metadata conventions to allow for more nuanced descriptions of socio-cultural settings; encouraging teamwork and interdisciplinary collaboration in order to extend the scope of sociolinguistic documentation; collecting sociolinguistic data which can inform language planning and policy; and creating opportunities for training in sociolinguistic documentation. Consideration of sociolinguistic language documentation also raises significant questions regarding the ways in which Western language ideologies, which have been especially prominent in shaping documentary agendas, may be unduly influencing documentary practice in other parts of the world.
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Format:		24
Identifier:		Childs, Tucker, Jeff Good, and Alice Mitchell. 2014. Beyond the Ancestral Code: Towards a Model for Sociolinguistic Language Documentation. Language Documentation & Conservation. 8: 168-191
		1934-5275
Identifier (URI):		http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24601
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
Publisher:		University of Hawaii Press
Rights:		Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported
		Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States
		http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
Subject:		language documentation
		sociolinguistics
		Sub-saharan Africa
		sociolingustic documentation
Table Of Contents:		childs.pdf
Type:		Article
Type (DCMI):		Text
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Citation:		Childs, Tucker; Good, Jeff; Alice, Mitchell. 2014. University of Hawaii Press.
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