Advancing Audio-visual Documentation of Passamaquoddy (SIL Code PQM) Group Discourse with Archive Access via the Web as an Integrated Video and Dictionary Database

摘要本项目“语言守护者”（国家科学基金资助BCS-05533791, 2006-2008），研究记录濒危语言的核心困境：公共群体话语的衰落和丧失。公共群体话语的记录为语言学家和母语教师和学生提供了必要的研究和学习资源。这项工作延续了缅因州帕萨马科迪社区成功的本土语言记录方法，证明了刺激新的群体对话和拍摄自然的、自发的帕萨马科迪语的可行性，特别是在时间紧迫和文化重要的地区。该项目有两个组成部分：首先，该项目使用视频文档本身作为参与者的反馈，以激发反思和进一步的讨论，在Passamaquoddy创造一个复兴的社区对话。接下来，现有的对话视频语料库，包括转录、翻译和字幕的“完整对话”，加上新拍摄的对话，将被重新定义为一个非线性的、可上网的视频数据库档案。这个录像数据库将与现有的联机词典数据库相连接。然后，观众将能够创建视频和词典条目集群，将一个项目的含义置于语境中，传达更深层次的文化和语言理解。这个资源可以在www.languagekeepers.org上找到，它使Passamaquoddy语言的复杂性更容易获得，并使教师培训、语言学习和研究的创新材料得以开发。

AbstractThis project, "The Language Keepers" (NSF grant BCS-05533791, 2006-2008), addresses a central dilemma in documenting endangered languages: the decline and loss of public group discourse. The documenting of public group discourse provides linguists and Native-language teachers and students with a necessary research and learning resource. The work continues a successful Native-language documentation methodology in the Passamaquoddy communities of Maine, demonstrating the feasibility of stimulating renewed group conversation and filming natural, spontaneously spoken Passamaquoddy, especially in time-critical and culturally significant areas. There are two components: First, the project uses the video documentation itself as feedback to participants to stimulate reflection and further discourse, creating a revived community dialogue in Passamaquoddy. Next, the existing conversational video corpus of transcribed, translated and subtitled "whole conversations," plus new conversations to be filmed, will be re-conceptualized as a non-linear, web-accessed, video database archive. This video database will be linked to the existing on-line dictionary data base. Viewers will then be able to create clusters of video and dictionary entries that contextualize the meaning of an item, conveying deeper cultural and linguistic understanding. This resource, which can be found online at www.languagekeepers.org, makes the linguistic complexity of Passamaquoddy more accessible and enables the development of innovative materials for teacher training, language learning, and research.