Conference: Understanding the Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts of Fifteen Years of U.S. Federal Funding for Documenting Endangered Languages

会议：了解美国联邦资助记录濒危语言十五年的知识价值和更广泛的影响

• 批准号: 1920687
• 负责人: Kristine Hildebrandt
• 金额: $ 3.08万
• 依托单位: Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2021-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1920687&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Understanding; Intellectual; Merit; Broader

This project will bring together scholars, students, and community members representing language documentation research projects funded by the National Science Foundation/National Endowment for the Humanities Documenting Endangered Languages Program (DEL) in order to participate in three organized sessions at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). Since its inception in 2003, DEL has funded hundreds of institutes and conferences, fellowships, and doctoral dissertations. In addition to "standard" documentation projects, increasingly, projects have come to include cross-disciplinary collaboration benefitting language revitalization and teaching, and community collaboration and capacity-building. These events will offer the opportunity for both reflection on significant achievements from DEL projects in the past fifteen years, and also for discussion about what directions documentation, archival preservation, and revitalization projects should take for the future. These events will allow participants to demonstrate how the science of documentation research can be co-constructed, from project conception, through to methods, and on to outputs, via considering indigenous interpretations and knowledge. The events will also allow participants to share how their documentation research has facilitated construction of sustainable community collaborations and educational opportunities, and fostered the rethinking of power distribution in situations of community involvement in documentation research. Broader impacts include the cross-pollination of ideas from different disciplinary perspectives, the potential for increased participation by Native Hawaiians, Alaska Natives and American Indians, historically underrepresented groups in linguistics, and the evaluation of the impact of federal funding from two distinct agencies in terms of intellectual merit and broader impacts, merit review criteria at NSF determined by the National Science Board.These events are scheduled to coincide with and complement LSA-organized celebrations of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages. Led by two NSF DEL award holders, the events will provide a platform for case studies of demonstrating the relevance of documentation research to science more generally, and also how funded projects provide training opportunities for community members, and members' roles in valuable resource creation. Importantly, the project will support the attendance of students and community partners, allowing for multiple viewpoints and perspectives about shaping and conducting documenting research for, by, and with language communities. The methodology employed will include pre-event dialogue between participants and project leaders to shape presentations and discussions according to project goals, and will also include allotted time during the events for audience-participant interaction. The outcomes of this project will articulate and promote community-based approaches toward the conceptualization and carryout of future documentation research. The participant collaborators will disseminate recommendations and best practices for community-oriented documentation research, and through post-conference publications, they will also provide examples and resources for future project directors and those with whom they partner.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将汇集学者，学生和社区成员，代表由国家科学基金会/国家人文基金会资助的语言文献研究项目记录濒危语言计划（DEL），以参加美国语言学会（LSA）年会上的三个有组织的会议。自2003年成立以来，DEL已经资助了数百个研究所和会议，奖学金和博士论文。除了“标准”文献项目外，越来越多的项目还包括有利于语言振兴和教学的跨学科合作以及社区合作和能力建设。这些活动将提供一个机会，既可以反思过去15年来DEL项目取得的重大成就，也可以讨论文件编制、档案保存和振兴项目未来应该采取的方向。这些活动将使与会者能够展示如何通过考虑土著解释和知识，从项目概念到方法，再到产出，共同构建文献研究科学。这些活动还将使参与者分享他们的文献研究如何促进可持续社区合作和教育机会的建设，并促进对社区参与文献研究情况下权力分配的重新思考。更广泛的影响包括来自不同学科视角的想法的交叉授粉，夏威夷土著人，阿拉斯加土著人和美洲印第安人，历史上在语言学中代表性不足的群体的参与增加的潜力，以及对来自两个不同机构的联邦资助在智力价值和更广泛影响方面的影响的评估，国家科学委员会确定的NSF的优点审查标准。这些活动计划与LSA组织的2019年国际土著语言年庆祝活动相吻合。由两名NSF DEL奖获得者领导，这些活动将为案例研究提供一个平台，展示文献研究与科学的相关性，以及资助项目如何为社区成员提供培训机会，以及成员在创造有价值的资源中的作用。重要的是，该项目将支持学生和社区合作伙伴的出席，允许多种观点和观点来塑造和进行语言社区的文献研究。所采用的方法将包括参与者和项目负责人之间的活动前对话，以根据项目目标进行演讲和讨论，还将包括活动期间分配给观众-参与者互动的时间。该项目的成果将阐明和促进以社区为基础的方法，以实现未来文献研究的概念化和实施。参与者合作者将传播面向社区的文献研究的建议和最佳实践，并通过会后出版物，他们还将为未来的项目负责人和与他们合作的人提供范例和资源。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。