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。该项目将记录奇佩瓦语[ciw] （Ojibwe）对话和其他非叙事语言类型，至少有三种不同的类型，填补当前语言文档的空白。研究小组将与六位Chippewa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。由此产生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。本软件可作为其他原住民族语言复兴工作的典范。这个文献项目的重点是对话，因为从社会语言学的角度来看，话语是语言和文化的核心。对于奇佩瓦语的第一批使用者来说，在合作对话中为他们的世界命名是文化生产的一项基本行为，这对记录和振兴至关重要。这项研究通过提供基于自然对话和其他话语形式的课程，可能会对奥吉布语的教学和学习产生突破性的贡献。文档项目将加强社区和机构之间的网络，同时培训新出现的第二语言使用者使用奥吉布语文档语言学，并使他们参与软件制作。在这个项目中，文档、培训、档案创建和分发都以相互的方式相吻合和重叠。此计画以先前的工作（由教育部“Ojibwe Movies”资助）为基础，开发互动式多媒体软体，教与学ojibwemoowin（“Ojibwemodaa”由草根原住民多媒体公司发行）。

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).