Documenting Chippewa [ciw] Conversation and Training Indigenous Scholars

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)资助的。该项目将记录Chippewa[ciw](Ojibwe)对话和其他至少三种不同的非叙述性演讲体裁，填补目前这种语言记录的空白。研究小组将与六名奇佩瓦长老合作，记录、翻译、转录和注释至少22小时的对话和其他文本类型。生成的档案可供语言学生和语言学家查阅，并将用于制作交互式多媒体学习模块。该软件可作为其他土著民族语言振兴工作的典范。该文件项目侧重于对话，因为从社会语言的角度来看，话语是语言和文化的核心。对于Chippewa的第一批演讲者来说，在合作对话中命名他们的世界是一种基本的文化生产行为，对于记录至关重要，对振兴具有开创性。本研究通过提供基于自然对话和其他语篇形式的课程，可能会对奥吉布语言的教学产生突破性的贡献。文件项目将加强社区和机构之间的网络，同时培训新出现的讲第二语言的人学习奥吉布纪录片语言学，并让他们参与软件制作。在这个项目中，文件编制、培训、档案创建和分发都是相互衔接和重叠的。该项目以以前的工作(由教育部资助的“Ojibwe电影”)为基础，为教与学Ojibwemowin(由草根土著多媒体发行的“Ojibwemodaa”)创建了一个交互式多媒体软件。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This project will document Chippewa [ciw] (Ojibwe)conversation and other non-narrative speech genres in at least three distinct varieties, filling a gap in the current documentation of the language. The research team will work with six Chippewa Elders to record, translate, transcribe, and annotate at least 22 hours of conversation and other text types. The resulting archive can be consulted by language students and linguists, and will be used in the production of interactive multimedia learning modules. This software may serve as a model for other indigenous nations in their own language revitalization efforts.This documentation project focuses on conversation, since from a socio-linguistic perspective, discourse is at the heart of language and culture. For first speakers of Chippewa, naming their world in collaborative dialogue is an essential act of cultural production that is vital for documentation and seminal for revitalization. This research may produce breakthroug contributions to Ojibwe language teaching and learning, by providing lessons based on natural conversation and other forms of discourse. The documentation project will strengthen networks across communities and institutions while training emerging second language speakers in Ojibwe documentary linguistics and involving them in software production. Documentation, training, archive creation and distribution all dovetail and overlap in reciprocal ways in this project. This project builds on previous work (funded by the Department of Education, "Ojibwe Movies") in the creation of an interactive multimedia software for teaching and learning Ojibwemowin ("Ojibwemodaa" distributed by Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia).