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>Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 15:25:02 -0700
>From: Matthew Finkbeiner <msf@DAKOTACOM.NET>
>Subject: Fw: Institute on Methods in Linguistic Anthropology
>Sender: Linguists at the University of Arizona 
>
>For those of you going to LSA, this might be of interest
>
>matthew
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gary B. Palmer <gbp@nevada.edu>
>To: cogling@ucsd.edu <cogling@ucsd.edu>
>Date: Friday, May 21, 1999 3:10 PM
>Subject: Institute on Methods in Linguistic Anthropology
>
>
>>Dear Colleagues,
>>
>>We are happy to report that NSF has approved funding for a Summer
>>Institute on Methods in Linguistic Anthropology, which will run
>>concurrently with the LSA Linguistic Institute at the University of
>>Illinois, Urbana-Champaign during the period from July 19 to 31, 1999.
>>This is an unpredented opportunity to earn credits, learn the methods of
>>linguistic anthropology, and enjoy all the other academic benefits of
>>the Linguistic Institute.  Please help us to notify students who may be
>>interested.
>>
>>The courses to be offered are listed below.  The instructors are highly
>>qualified.  Information regarding registration, schedules, tuition, and
>>lodging can be found on the LSA Summer Institute home page at
>><http://www.beckman.uiuc.edu/groups/cs/linginst/>.  Our courses will be
>>offered in the session on Anthropological Linguistics.
>>
>>Our thanks to the students who expressed interest, and to the colleagues
>>who helped with planning and who may have supported our proposal.  We
>>hope to see you and your students in Urbana.
>>
>>Gary Palmer, Co-director
>>Elizabeth Brandt, Co-director
>>
>>Basic Methods of Elicitation, 2 week course, Bert Vaux (Harvard) and
>>Marlyse Baptista (Georgia)
>>Anthropologists often enter field situations knowing very little of the
>>local language in which fieldwork must be conducted.  This workshop
>>provides methods of elicitation especially useful to the beginning field
>>worker, e.g.  recording and transcription of domain-centered lexicons
>>and short narratives, elicitation of native-language ontological
>>questions, design of elicitation frames.  Participants work with a
>>native-speaker of a non-Indo-European language.  Prerequisites:
>>Introductory course in linguistics.
>>
>>Gesturing and Speaking about Space: A Cross-cultural Perspective, 2 week
>>course, Sotaro Kita (Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics,
>>Nijmegen)
>>This course introduces cross-cultural studies of gestures that
>>spontaneously accompany speech.  The focus is on speech and gesture that
>>refer to space. Gestures are used to tap into the mental representation
>>of space activated in the mind of the speaker. Observation of gestures
>>shed light on the following issues: the influence of semantic typology
>>of spatial language on the speech production process, culture-specific
>>spatial schemas and their metaphorical extension, cultural-specificity
>>of computation of spatial orientation.
>>The course also refers to a wide range of methods for data collection
>>and analysis.  The data for the above studies are collected in various
>>ways, from ethnographic to semi-experimental: telling of traditional
>>stories, naturalistic route description, and narratives elicited by a
>>stimulus.  Each research topic requires different types of coding of
>>gestures: from the coding of purely formal features, to the coding
>>involving the interpretation of the gestural content.  Prerequisites:
>>none.
>>
>>The Uses of Videotape in Linguistic Anthropology, 2 week course,
>>Elizabeth Keating (University of Texas at Austin)
>>Video is an excellent tool for documenting the richness and complexity
>>of human communicative practices in natural or constructed situations.
>>Video not only allows anthropologists to carefully record and describe
>>language events, but can provide an opportunity to repeatedly examine
>>such events with local consultants who can collaborate on analysis.
>>Anthropologists may also analyze videotapes produced by indigenous
>>peoples. This course covers methods of videotaping in the field,
>>analysis of videotaped communicative events, situations in which
>>videotaping is appropriate, ethics of videotaping, transcription, and
>>equipment. Students will have an opportunity for hands-on videotaping
>>and editing experience. No previous experience with video required.
>>Prerequisites: none.
>>
>>The Use of Computers in Linguistic Anthropology, 2 week course, David
>>Tuggy (SIL)
>>This course will introduce students to the software programs Shoebox
>>and  LinguaLinks.  Potential uses in linguistic anthropology include
>>grammatical analysis, semantic analysis, historical linguistics, and
>>automatic translation.  Prerequisite: introductory course in
>>linguistics  and familiarity with Windows95 or higher.  Instruction will
>>take place  in a computer lab, but students may wish to bring a Pentium
>>laptop  running Windows95 at 100mhz.
>>
>>The Interface of Language and Gesture (Cross-listed from the 1999 LSA
>>Linguistic Institute), 2 week course, Brenda Farnell (UIUC)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
Lise Menn
Professor and Chair
Linguistics Department - Box 295
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309-0295
303-492-8042; fax 303-492-4416

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