Collaborative Research: Institute on Collaborative Language Research

该奖项支持由亚利桑那州立大学(ASU)和盐河皮马-马里科帕印第安人社区(SRPMIC)联合主办的协作语言研究所(CoLang)，盐河皮马-马里科帕印第安人社区是联邦承认的部落。CoLang每两年举办一次，将学者、社区学者和土著语言活动家聚集在一起，提供语言文献、振兴和协作实践方面的培训。由于亚利桑那州立大学位于组成SRPMIC社区的两个美洲原住民社会和语言Akimel O‘odham和Piipaash的祖传故乡，Colang 2024的主题是“创建伙伴关系，尊重邻居，建设能力”。这一主题代表着社会科学发展的一步，教育者和土著学者在一个由高等教育机构和部落语言项目的合作愿景塑造的环境中会面、学习和进行研究。Colang 2024是邻居之间富有成效和可持续的伙伴关系的典范，也是亚利桑那州立大学等美国主要研究型大学如何以有意义的方式与部落邻居互动的典范。Colang回应了不同参与者的需求：希望获得技术技能的学术语言学家，需要语言文献合作研究基础培训的语言学学生，希望培训自己基本语言学技能的语言教师，以及致力于社区维护和振兴项目的社区语言活动家。该研究所包括为期两周的密集讲习班，涉及语言学、语言文献和振兴、教育和技术等广泛主题，重点是社区参与性研究。随后是为期两周的深入实践，参与者应用他们新学到的技能并开发有针对性的研究项目。以前的参与者将他们的研究所经验融入世界各地的文件项目和社区振兴活动中。该研究所培养能力、技能和方法，从而促进职业发展、产出、项目，并产生新的语言方法和研究。其中包括补助金、毕业论文和学位论文、书籍、学术文章、语文档案和数据库、项目开发和跨社区联网方法。完成CoLang课程的语言学家和学者对基于社区的语言工作的重要性有了理解。完成CoLang课程的语言活动家具备帮助他们为社区的语言回收工作做出有意义、多产和可持续的贡献的技能。这一奖项是国家科学基金会和国家人文基金会为国家科学基金会动态语言基础设施-NEH记录濒危语言项目建立的资金合作伙伴关系的一部分。该奖项反映了国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports the Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang), jointly hosted by Arizona State University (ASU) and Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC), a federally recognized tribe. CoLang takes place every two years, bringing together academics, community scholars, and indigenous language activists to provide training in language documentation, revitalization, and collaborative practices. Because ASU is situated on the ancestral homelands of the Akimel O’odham and Piipaash, the two Native American societies and languages that comprise the SRPMIC community, the theme for CoLang 2024 is "Creating Partnerships, Honoring Neighbors, Building Capacity". This theme represents a step in the evolution of social science, where educators and indigenous scholars meet, learn, and do research in a setting shaped by the collaborative vision of an institution of higher learning and a tribal-run language program. CoLang 2024 serves as a model for productive and sustainable partnerships between neighbors, and for how major American research universities such as ASU can engage with their tribal neighbors in a meaningful way.CoLang responds to the needs of a diverse group of participants: academic linguists who want to gain technical skills, linguistics students who need basic training in collaborative research in language documentation, language teachers who wish to train themselves in basic linguistics skills, and community language activists who work on maintenance and revitalization projects for their communities. The institute consists of two weeks of intensive workshops on a broad range of topics in linguistics, language documentation and revitalization, education, and technology, with an emphasis on community-based participatory research. This is followed by two weeks of in-depth practica, where the participants apply their newly acquired skills and develop focused research projects. Previous participants have incorporated their institute experiences into documentation projects and community revitalization activities worldwide. The institute builds capacity, skills, and methods that result in career advancement, outputs, projects, and generating new linguistic methodologies and research. These include grants, graduate theses and dissertations, books, academic articles, language archives and databases, project development and cross-community networking methodologies. Linguists and academics who complete CoLang come away with an understanding of the importance of community-based language work. Language activists who complete CoLang are equipped with skills that help them make meaningful, productive, and sustainable contributions to the language reclamation efforts of their communities. This award is made as part of a funding partnership between the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities for the NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure – NEH Documenting Endangered Languages Program.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.