Filming "Breath of Life - Silent No More" California Indian Language Restoration Workshop at the University of California at Berkeley

加州大学伯克利分校拍摄《生命的呼吸——不再沉默》加州印第安语言修复工作坊

• 批准号: 0438121
• 负责人: Daniel Miller
• 金额: $ 1.25万
• 依托单位: Ironbound Films, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-06-01 至 2005-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0438121&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Filming; Breath; Life; Silent; No

Filming "Breath of Life-Silent No More"California Indian Language Restoration Workshop With support from the National Science Foundation, Ironbound Films, Inc., will film "Breath of Life-Silent No More" California Indian Language Restoration Workshop at the University of California at Berkeley from June 5 through 10, 2004. The Workshop brings together about fifty American Indians interested in reviving or maintaining their native tongues. It shows participants how to locate and understand scientific research on their languages and then use what they find to teach the language to others. Ironbound will follow participants as they sift through linguists and anthropologists' field notebooks and audio recordings, from digital tapes to one-hundred-year-old wax cylinders. Participants will be filmed as they attempt to understand the words of their ancestors and decipher the phonetic writing and grammatical annotations used by the scientists who documented them. Linguists will be filmed as they instruct participants in the most innovative methods of teaching these languages to their communities. The footage will be a critical component of Vanishing Voices (working title), a one-hour documentary on language endangerment. Vanishing Voices takes viewers from Native Siberia to Native America, from ancient texts to cutting-edge technology, to demonstrate how scientists record-even help revive-the world's tongues.Linguists estimate that, of more than 6,800 languages in the world, as many as ninety percent will not survive the century; an average of one dies every two weeks. The rapid rate of language loss hinders the development of theories about language variation and therefore human cognition; debilitates the reconstruction of linguistic prehistory and therefore human prehistory; and prevents the tapping of indigenous knowledge of the environment. It is essential that the public understand how language loss affects science and how scientists are preparing. Vanishing Voices will be America's first look at how languages become endangered, and the awesome task of documenting and preserving them. Footage from the "Breath of Life-Silent No More" Workshop will demonstrate how people with languages no longer spoken are learning and applying scientific methods to help bring their languages back into use.

拍摄“生命的气息--不再沉默”加州印第安语修复研讨会在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，Ironound电影公司将于2004年6月5日至10日在加州大学伯克利分校举办的“生命的气息--不再沉默”加州印第安语修复研讨会。研讨会聚集了大约50名对恢复或保持他们的母语感兴趣的美国印第安人。它向参与者展示了如何找到和理解关于他们语言的科学研究，然后用他们发现的东西将语言教授给其他人。IronBound将跟随参与者在语言学家和人类学家的实地笔记本和录音中筛选，从数字磁带到百年蜡筒。参与者将被拍摄下来，试图理解他们祖先的话，并破译记录他们的科学家使用的语音书写和语法注释。将拍摄语言学家指导参与者向他们所在社区教授这些语言的最具创新性的方法。这段视频将是一部关于语言濒危的一小时纪录片《消失的声音》(暂定标题)的重要组成部分。《消失的声音》带领观众从西伯利亚原住民到美洲原住民，从古老的文本到尖端技术，展示了科学家是如何记录-甚至帮助复兴-世界语言的。语言学家估计，在世界上6800多种语言中，多达90%将无法存活一个世纪；平均每两周就有一种语言死亡。语言迅速丧失的速度阻碍了语言变异理论的发展，从而阻碍了人类认知的发展；削弱了语言史前的重建，从而削弱了人类史前的重建；并阻止了对环境的本土知识的利用。至关重要的是，公众必须了解语言缺失是如何影响科学的，以及科学家们是如何准备的。消失的声音将是美国第一次看到语言如何濒临灭绝，以及记录和保护它们的可怕任务。“生命的气息--不再沉默”研讨会的片段将展示那些不再使用语言的人是如何学习和应用科学方法来帮助他们的语言重新使用的。