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

该项目将汇集由美国国家科学基金会/国家人文文献濒危语言基金会（DEL）资助的语言文献研究项目的学者、学生和社区成员，以参加美国语言学会（LSA）年会上有组织的三次会议。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”文档项目之外，越来越多的项目包括有利于语言复兴和教学的跨学科合作，以及社区合作和能力建设。这些活动将为回顾过去15年来DEL项目取得的重大成就提供机会，同时也为讨论文档、档案保存和振兴项目未来的方向提供机会。这些活动将允许参与者展示如何通过考虑当地的解释和知识，从项目概念到方法，再到产出，共同构建文献研究科学。这些活动还将允许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观点的思想的交叉授粉，夏威夷原住民、阿拉斯加原住民和美国印第安人的参与增加的潜力，语言学中历史上代表性不足的群体，以及对来自两个不同机构的联邦资金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国家科学基金会的价值审查标准。这些活动计划与lsa组织的2019年国际土著语言年庆祝活动同时举行并互为补充。由两位NSF DEL奖获得者领导，这些活动将提供一个案例研究平台，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，以及成员在有价值的资源创造中的作用。重要的是，该项目将支持学生和社区合作伙伴的出席，允许多种观点和视角来为语言社区塑造和开展文档研究。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，以根据项目目标形成演示和讨论，还将包括在活动期间为观众和参与者互动分配的时间。该项目的成果将阐明和促进以社区为基础的方法，以概念化和开展未来的文献研究。参与者合作者将传播面向社区的文档研究的建议和最佳实践，并通过会后出版物，为未来的项目主管及其合作伙伴提供示例和资源。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

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.