SUMMER INSTITUTE ON METHODS IN LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, July 19-31, 1999

9972896帕尔默兰语言人类学方法研究所将在1999年语言研究所的主持下举行。由美国语言学会（Linguistic Society of America）每两年举办一次的语言学研究所（Linguistic Institute）提供大学学分课程，同时举办学术会议，并邀请知名学者在全体会议上发表演讲。这个方法研究所将开设四个为期两周的语言人类学方法课程。学生每修完一门课程将获得一学期学分。开设这所方法学院的目的是为了纠正在语言人类学家的培训中存在的明显缺陷。由于语言人类学的当代学科结构薄弱，学生很难在本学科的方法上获得实践训练。方法研究所将开设语言启发、手势和肢体语言分析、在语言人类学中使用录像带以及在语言人类学中使用计算机等课程。语言启发课程将包括专题词汇和短篇叙述的记录和转录，发现与自然和社会结构有关的母语问题，以及为探索特殊主题设计系统的问题集。分析手势和肢体语言的课程将展示如何利用这些信息来发现空间信息的文化模型。录像带课程将包括现场录像的方法，录像交流的分析，以及录像的伦理。语言人类学中的计算机课程将展示它们如何用于语法分析、发现数据中有意义的主题、发现语言之间的历史关系以及自动翻译。语言人类学的学生也将受益于他们与许多杰出学者的联系，这些学者来研究所任教，并在会议和全体会议上发表演讲。该研究所将有助于促进在语言人类学领域使用健全的语言学方法。

9972896PalmerAn Institute in Methods in Linguistic Anthropology will be held under the auspices of the 1999 Linguistic Institute. The Linguistic Institute, which is conducted every two years by the Linguistic Society of America, offers courses for college credit, sponsors concurrent scholarly conferences, and invites talks by eminent scholars for plenary sessions. This institute on methods will offer four two-week courses on methods in linguistic anthropology. Students will earn one semester credit for each course completed.The purpose of offering this institute on methods is to correct a perceived deficiency in the training of linguistic anthropologists. Because contemporary disciplinary structures are weak in linguistic anthropology, it is very hard for students to obtain practical training in the methods of their discipline. The methods institute will offer courses on linguistic elicitation, the analysis of gestures and body-language, the uses of videotape in linguistic anthropology, and the uses of computers in linguistic anthropology. The course on linguistic elicitation will include recording and transcription of topical lexicons and short narratives, discovery of native-language questions pertaining to the structure of nature and society, and the design of systematic sets of questions for the exploration of special topics. The course on the analysis gestures and body-language will show how this information can be used to discover cultural models of spatial information. The course on videotape will include methods of videotaping in the field, the analysis of videotaped communication, and the ethics of videotaping. The course on computers in linguistic anthropology will demonstrate how they can be used for the analysis of grammars, for the discovery of meaningful themes in data, for the discovery of historical relationships between languages, and for automatic translation.Students in linguistic anthropology who attend the institute will also benefit from their association with the many outstanding scholars who attend the institute to teach and give talks at conferences and plenary sessions. The institute will help to foster the use of sound linguistic methods in the field of linguistic anthropology.