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This is the homepage of Arienne M. Dwyer
Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities Associate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, KU Anthropology Ph.D. in Chinese and Altaic Linguistics, University of Washington, 1996.
I have conducted 20 years of in situ research on Turkic-Mongolic-Sinitic-Bodic language and culture contact in Inner and Central Asia and has directed a number of cooperative language research projects in Inner and Central Asia. Internationally she acts as a consultant in endangered language documentation and multimedia annotation and archiving. At the University of Kansas, I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in language and society, constructed languages, linguistic data processing, lexicography, language ideologies and ethnopoetics, and ethnicity and languages of China and Central Asia. I initiated the KU Uyghur language program and co-authored the textbook and audio (which is freely available here, and had been the most heavily-downloaded item on KU ScholarWorks for the last three years). I organize Digital Humanities workshops, and teach language documentation & technology workshops. Research and Teaching Interests · Community-based Language Research and language support aka reacquisition [Grandstaff] · Discourse-based approaches to Grammar · Less-commonly taught language pedagogy: esp. modern and premodern Uyghur, comparative Turkic · Language Contact and Variation (esp. areal processes, creolization, and discourse and language ideologies) · Digital Media Archives, Cyberlinguistics, and cyberanthropology: Computing applications, methods, and standards for analyzing linguistic and ethnographic field data; corpora, relational databases, XML tools, Unicode; metadata. · Performance, Narrative Structure and Ethnopoetics · Linguistic and Cultural Contact in Inner Asia · Sinitic, Turkic, & Mongolic languages: Salar, Uyghur, Monguor, Mangghuer, Baonan, Wutun, Kangjia, Northwest Mandarin · Language, Power, and Ethnicity Current Research Projects · P.I., Light Verbs in Uyghur (NSF-BCS 1065524) Studying universal properties of V-V light verb constructions via a corpus-based diachronic study of the Central Asian Turkic Uyghur language. · P.I., Interactive Inner Asia (NSF-BCS 1053152) · P.I. CoLang: Institute for Collaborative Language Research (NSF-BCS 1065469)a summer school in documentary linguistics, (formerly InField) co-directed with Carlos M Nash; Assistant Director Jari Billiot), June-July 2012. Contact: colang ku.edu Curriculum Vita [pdf] Tomato-Throwing Opportunities (at upcoming talks and courses)
Items for the Overly Serious · Mots d'Heures: Gousse, Rames · More Gousse, Rames · About the Goon Show · A Puzzler
¿Why has the endearing bactrian camel been swapped out for a portrait with floral headgear? Stay tuned as the drama unfolds. Dr. Arienne M. Dwyer
Co-Director, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, http://idrh.ku.edu/ last modified 5 September 2011 |
