American Indian Sign Language Conference 2012 (August 31-September 2 in Browning, Montana)

2012 年美洲印第安人手语会议（8 月 31 日至 9 月 2 日，蒙大拿州布朗宁）

• 批准号: 1160604
• 负责人: Jeffrey Davis
• 金额: $ 5.61万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-04-15 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1160604&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: American; Indian; Sign; Language; Conference

This project will organize and coordinate an American Indian Sign Language (AISL) Conference and documentary linguistics workshops in Browning, Montana on the Blackfeet [Amskapi Pikuni] Reservation, August 31 - September 2, 2012. All phases of the Conference will involve collaboration with members of Native American signing communities to document the geographic spread, domains of use, and linguistic status of AISL, currently classified as an endangered language. Sign language linguists, anthropologists, and scholars specializing in documentary linguistic fieldwork will be invited to also participate. Linguistic and anthropology students will assist the project with video recording and photographing presentations, workshops, and main events. The Conference will be widely publicized in academic venues and American Indian communities. A major anticipated DEL research outcome is to identify and involve more individuals who know AISL from Indian nations of the US and Canada. This will be the first occasion since the early 1930s that American Indian signers from different nations will have convened to share their knowledge of history, geography, and culture through signed and spoken language. Following the Conference, the project PI will apply annotation software for linguistic transcription and analysis (e.g. ELAN). Short video clips and image collages will be produced for the public with longer video samples for the AISL community and researchers. The Conference will showcase efforts to document and describe AISL. The workshops will demonstrate the linguistic transcription and translation processes to produce documentary linguistic materials both accessible and analyzable by people unfamiliar with the languages involved. Project outcomes will be integrated into the research website/digital corpus, maintained at the University of Tennessee. This offers dissemination to a broad audience and contributes to AISL preservation, revitalization, and corpus linguistic research. It is anticipated that these findings will advance our knowledge of the cognitive, cultural, and linguistic underpinnings of indigenous sign languages.

该项目将于2012年8月31日至9月2日在蒙大拿州黑脚[Amskapi Pikuni]保留地的布朗宁组织和协调美国印第安人手语会议和文献语言学讲习班。 会议的所有阶段都将涉及与美洲原住民签名社区成员的合作，以记录目前被列为濒危语言的AISL的地理分布、使用领域和语言地位。 手语语言学家、人类学家和专门从事文献语言实地考察的学者也将应邀参加。 语言学和人类学的学生将协助视频录制和摄影演示，研讨会和主要活动的项目。 会议将在学术场所和美洲印第安人社区广泛宣传。 一个主要的预期DEL研究成果是确定和涉及更多的人谁知道AISL从美国和加拿大的印度国家。这将是自20世纪30年代初以来，来自不同国家的美国印第安人签名者首次通过签名和口语分享他们的历史，地理和文化知识。 会后，项目PI将应用注释软件进行语言转录和分析（例如ELAN）。 将为公众制作短视频剪辑和图像拼贴，并为AISL社区和研究人员制作较长的视频样本。会议将展示为记录和描述AISL所做的努力。讲习班将展示语言转录和翻译过程，以制作不熟悉所涉语言的人可以查阅和分析的语言文献材料。 项目成果将纳入田纳西大学维持的研究网站/数字语料库。这为广泛的受众提供了传播，并有助于AISL的保存，振兴和语料库语言研究。 预计这些发现将促进我们对土著手语的认知、文化和语言基础的了解。