Arienne Dwyer
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences - Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts & SciencesRoom 638
Arienne M. Dwyer is a Professor of Linguistic Anthropology and Co-Director of the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on language contact and language ideology. She has conducted 20 years of local research with individuals and communities in Inner and Central Asia (on Turkic-Mongolic-Sinitic-Tibetic language contact), and has directed a number of collaborative documentation and archiving projects, including Salar (1991-1993, Fulbright), Kazakh (1993, Fulbright), Uyghur dialectology, language ideology and verb typology (2002-2003, ACLS, 2011-2014, NSF), Salar, Monguor, Baonan and Wutun (2000-2005, 2007-2008 Volkswagen-DOBES), Kyrgyz folklore and language policy (2004 and 2008, respectively, Open Society Institute), and archaic German dialects in Kansas (2005).
Internationally she acts as a consultant on language documentation and multimedia annotation and archiving (IMDI, UNESCO, EMELD), on social science research methods (Open Society Institute, Trace Foundation), has chaired the Linguistic Society of America's Committee on Endangered Language Preservation (CELP), and has organized conferences and summer schools on language resources and technology, the Digital Tools Summit in Linguistics (DTSL), Towards Interoperability in Language Resources (TILR), and Co-Lang 2012: Institute for Language Research.
She is currently working on Middle Turkic (Chaghatay) texts from the Jarring Collection, focusing on healing and medicine and on XML technologies ( https://uyghur.ittc.ku.edu/atmo.html). In addition, she and her research teams continue to enhance a major primary resource on language contact in Inner Asia (Interactive Inner Asia, https://iaia.ittc.ku.edu) and another longitudinal corpus of the Central Asian Uyghur language (Uyghur Light Verbs, https://uyghur.ittc.ku.edu/uylvs.html)
Education
Ph.D., Chinese and Altaic Linguistics, University of Washington
M.A., Chinese Language and Literature, University of Washington
B.A., Linguistics, University of British Columbia
Teaching Interests
- Language contact, language documentation, language revitalization, language ideology
- Digital humanities
- Historical linguistics
- Linguistic typology
- China
- Central Asia
- Uyghur language and culture
- Turkic languages
- Chinese languages
Research
Language Contact and variation (areal processes, linguistic creolization, discourse and ideologies)
Digital Humanities, Corpora, Media Archives, cyberinfrastructure: Methods, tools, cultural practices and standards for analyzing data and representing knowledge; XML, Unicode.
China; Chinese Inner Asia (especially Xinjiang and Qinghai); Kyrgyzstan
Language Endangerment and Revitalization; Less-commonly taught language pedagogy
Sinitic, Turkic, and Mongolic languages
Performance, narratology and ethnopoetics
Research Interests
- Language contact, language documentation, language technology, language ideology
- Digital humanities
- Media archiving
- China
- Central Asia
- Chaghatay
- Uyghur
- Wutun
- Monguor
- Salar
- Baonan
- Kyrgyz
- Language change and climate change.
Selected Publications
Dwyer, A. M., Bellér-Hann, I. Sugawara, J. & Schlyter, B. (2017). Manuscript Technologies, Writing and Reading in Early 20th Century Kashgar. In , Kashgar Revisited: The Life and Work of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring (pp. 34-57). Brill. DOI:10.1163/9789004330078_004
Dwyer, A. M. (2016). Bringing Digital Data Management into Methods Courses: Linguistic Anthropology Module. In , Bringing Digital Data Management Training into Methods Courses for Anthropology. Arlington, Va: American Anthropological Association. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23399
Rosenblum, B. Dwyer, A. M., White, J. W., & Gilbert, H. (2016). Co-piloting a digital humanities center: a critical reflection on a libraries-academic partnership. In , Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries (pp. 111–126). Purdue University Press. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23400
Dwyer, A. M., Eker, S. & Şavk, &. &. (2016). Endangered Turkic languages of China. In , Tehlikedeki Türk Dilleri: Kuramsal ve genel yaklaşımlar / Endangered Turkic Languages: Theoretical and general approaches (Vol. 1, pp. 431–450). Ankara: International Turkic Academy and Astana: International Turkish-Kazakh University.
Dwyer, A. M., Lloyd-Smith, L. Oths, K. Perry, G. H., & Femenías, B. (2016). General Principles and Practices of Digital Data Management. In , Bringing Digital Data Management Training into Methods Courses for Anthropology. Arlington, Va: American Anthropological Association. http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22670
Engesæth, T. Yakup, M. & Dwyer, A. (2010). Teklimakandin Salam: hazirqi zaman Uyghur tili qollanmisi / Greetings from the Teklimakan: a handbook of Modern Uyghur, Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas ScholarWorks.
Selected Presentations
Dwyer, A. M. (07/19/2013). XQuery databases for the UyLVs and IAIA projects. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. Lincoln, NB
Selected Grants
Dwyer, Arienne M., (Co-Principal), Schultz, Tanja J., (Co-Principal), Automated Speech Recognition for Uyghur, NSF-IIS 1519164, U.S. National Science Foundation, Information & Intelligent Systems, http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1519164, $27,338, Submitted 11/01/2014 (02/15/2015 - 07/31/2016). Federal. Status: Funded.
Dwyer, Arienne M., (Principal), Interactive Inner Asia: documenting an endangered language contact area, $264,220, (05/01/2011 - 07/31/2016). Original funding $259,220; Supplementary REG funding for Benjamin J Gray, ("Southwestern Kansan Corn Farmers’ Cultural Models of Groundwater and its Use"), Summer 2015, $5,000;No-cost extension in Jan 2015. Federal. Status: Funded.
Dwyer, Arienne M., (Principal), Light verbs in Uyghur, U.S. NSF-Linguistics http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1053152Project website: http://uyghur.ittc.ku.edu, $327,960, (01/01/2011 - 12/31/2015). No-cost extension in Jan 2015; project web page: https://uyghur.ittc.ku.edu/uylvs.html. Federal. Status: Funded.
Dwyer, Arienne M., (Principal), Co-Lang: Institute for Collaborative Language Documentation Training, NSF-BCS 1065469, $190,344, (01/01/2011 - 12/31/2013). Federal. Status: Funded.
Dwyer, Arienne M., (Collaborator), Aristar, Anthony, (Principal), Dry, Helen, (Principal), Language and Location: A Multimodal Annotation Project (LL-MAP), $18,000, (01/01/2006 - 12/31/2008). Federal. Status: Funded.
Dwyer, Arienne M., (Principal), Aristar-Dry, Helen, (Co-Principal), Aristar, Anthony, (Co-Principal), Towards Interoperability in Language Resources, NSF-BCS 0709732, NSF-Linguistics, (01/01/2006 - 12/31/2007). Federal. Status: Funded.
Dwyer, Arienne M., (Principal), Digital Tools Summit in Linguistics, NSF-BCS 0624048, NSF-CISE, NSF-Linguistics, $24,973, - 12/31/2006). Federal. Status: Funded.
Dwyer, Arienne M., Language Contact and Variation: A Discourse-based Grammar of Monguor, FA 52154-05, NEH-NSF Documenting Endangered Languages program, $40,000, (01/01/2005 - 12/31/2006). Federal. Status: Funded.
