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

该项目将于2012年8月31日至9月2日在蒙大拿州布朗宁组织和协调美国印第安人手语(AISL)会议和关于黑脚[Amskapi Pikuni]保留地的纪录片语言学研讨会。会议的所有阶段都将涉及与美洲原住民签约社区成员的合作，以记录Aisl的地理传播、使用领域和语言状况，Aisl目前被列为濒危语言。手语语言学家、人类学家和专门从事纪实语言田野调查的学者也将被邀请参加。语言学和人类学专业的学生将协助该项目进行视频录制和拍摄演示、研讨会和主要活动。会议将在学术场所和美国印第安人社区广泛宣传。Del研究的一个主要预期成果是确定并让更多从美国和加拿大的印度国家了解Aisl的人参与进来。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将首次聚集在一起，通过手语和口语分享他们关于历史、地理和文化的知识。会议结束后，PI项目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。会议将展示记录和描述AISL的努力。讲习班将演示语言转录和翻译过程，以制作可供不熟悉所涉语言的人查阅和分析的书面语言材料。项目成果将纳入田纳西大学维护的研究网站/数字语料库。这为广泛的受众提供了传播，并有助于AISL的保护、振兴和语料库语言学研究。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。

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.