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

9972896Palmer语言人类学方法研究所将在1999年语言研究所的赞助下成立。语言研究所由美国语言学会每两年举办一次，提供大学学分课程，赞助同期学术会议，并邀请知名学者在全体会议上演讲。该方法研究所将提供四门为期两周的语言人类学方法课程。 学生完成每门课程将获得一个学期的学分。该学院提供方法的目的是纠正语言人类学家培训中的明显缺陷。由于当代学科结构在语言人类学方面薄弱，学生很难获得学科方法的实践训练。该方法研究所将提供语言启发、手势和肢体语言分析、录像带在语言人类学中的使用以及计算机在语言人类学中的使用等课程。语言启发课程将包括记录和转录主题词汇和简短叙述、发现有关自然和社会结构的母语问题以及设计用于探索专题的系统问题集。关于分析手势和肢体语言的课程将展示如何使用这些信息来发现空间信息的文化模型。录像课程将包括现场录像的方法、录像通讯的分析以及录像的道德规范。语言人类学计算机课程将展示如何使用它们来分析语法、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。就读该学院的语言人类学学生还将受益于与许多杰出学者的交往，这些学者在该学院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语言人类学领域正确语言方法的使用。

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.