Taking language use seriously: On the importance of multimodality and interaction in documentary practices
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The aim of language documentation is to provide a comprehensive record of the observable linguistic behaviour and practices of a language community to be used now and in the future. The endeavour goes beyond the mere description of the linguistic system. To serve as a multipurpose record, the documentary record must capture language use in its fullest form — as a fundamentally multimodal and interactional phenomenon. This means that video recording is essential to the collection of data in language documentation efforts, and that the description and analysis of data must ultimately extend to and integrate multimodal and interactive components of language use. In this chapter, we outline the implications for language documentation from such a conception of language.
En S. Riesberg, U. Reinöhl y B. Hellwig (Eds.), The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations (pp. 182–209).