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

这个名为《语言保管者》的项目解决了记录濒危语言的一个核心难题：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阿奥迪社区成功的土著语言记录方法，证明了刺激新的群体对话和拍摄自然、自发地说出的帕萨马奥迪语的可行性，特别是在时间紧迫和文化意义重大的地区。该项目有两个组成部分：首先，该项目使用视频文件本身作为对参与者的反馈，以激发反思和进一步的讨论，在帕萨马奥迪创造一个复兴的社区对话。接下来，现有的经过转录、翻译和字幕的对话视频语料库，加上要拍摄的新对话，将被重新概念化为一个非线性的、可通过网络访问的视频数据库档案。该视频数据库将与现有的在线词典数据库相连接。然后，观众将能够创建一系列视频和词典条目，将某一项目的含义与背景联系起来，传达更深层次的文化和语言理解。这一资源可在www.languagekeepers.org上在线找到，使帕萨马阿奥迪的语言复杂性更容易获得，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.