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  • 标题:On Training in Language Documentation and Capacity Building in Papua New Guinea: A Response to Bird et al
  • 作者:Joseph D. Brooks
  • 期刊名称:Language Documentation Conservation
  • 印刷版ISSN:1934-5275
  • 出版年度:2015
  • 卷号:9
  • 页码:1-9
  • 出版社:University of Hawai‘i Press
  • 摘要:

    In a recent article, Bird et al. (2013) discuss a workshop held at the University of Goroka in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in 2012. The workshop was intended to offer a new methodological framework for language documentation and capacity building that streamlines the documentation process and accelerates the global effort to document endangered languages through machine translation and automated glossing technology developed by computer scientists. As a volunteer staff member at the workshop, in this response to Bird et al. I suggest that it did not in the end provide us with a model that should be replicated in the future. I explain how its failure to uphold fundamental commitments from a documentary linguistic and humanistic perspective can help inform future workshops and large-scale documentary efforts in PNG. Instead of experimenting with technological shortcuts that aim to reduce the role of linguists in language documentation and that construct participants as sources of data, we should implement training workshops geared toward the interests and skills of local participants who are interested in documenting their languages, and focus on building meaningful partnerships with academic institutions in PNG.

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