Journal article

Documentary Linguistics: Methodological Challenges and Innovatory Responses

N Thieberger

Applied Linguistics | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1093/applin/amv076

Abstract

Seeing the present situation, I think that, at the very least, it behooves us as scientists and as human beings to work responsibly both for the future of our science and for the future of our languages, not so much for reward according to the fashion of the day, but for the sake of posterity. What we need to do now stares us in the face. If we do not act, we should be cursed by future generations for Neronically fiddling while Rome burned. (Krauss 1992: 8)

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Nicholas Thieberger Author

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Awarded by Australian Research Council

Funding Acknowledgements

Thanks to Lauren Gawne, Simon Musgrave and two anonymous reviewers for feedback on an earlier version of this article. My work has been supported by ARC grants DP0984419 and FT140100214.

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Keywords

47 Language, Communication and Culture

Language Documentation

4704 Linguistics

Social Sciences