Arienne Dwyer

Arienne Dwyer is a Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, and co-founded and directed a Digital Humanities institute for seven years at the University of Kansas. She was previously a Humboldt Scholar and postdoctoral researcher in Turkology and documentary linguistics at the University of Mainz, Germany. A specialist on language convergence and language ideologies, over twenty years she has partnered with communities in northern Tibet and Chinese Turkestan (Xinjiang) to analyze spoken data on a dozen endangered languages in contact with majority languages. She is the co-author of a Uyghur language text, and a teacher of Indigenous language documentation and data ethics.

The project 

Title: Dolan Adaptation and Resistance: Language, Music, and Digital Humanities

Keywords: 

• Language contact and variation (areal processes, typology, creolization, discourse and ideologies)
• Digital Humanities, corpora, archiving, cyberinfrastructure: Methods, tools, cultural practices and standards for analyzing data and representing knowledge; XML; spatial analysis, digital editions
• Research and archiving methods, open access, data ethics
• China; Chinese Inner Asia (especially Xinjiang and Qinghai); the CIS; Transeurasian interactions
• Language endangerment and revitalization; language technologies
• Sinitic, Turkic, and Mongolic languages ; Indigenous languages

Selected publications

• Dwyer, Arienne M. 2005. The Xinjiang Conflict: Uyghur Identity, Language Policy, and Political Discourse. Policy Studies 15. Washington, D.C.: East-West Center Washington. Pdf: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/sites/default/files/private/PS015.pdf
• Dwyer, Arienne M. 2007. Salar: a study in Inner Asian areal contact processes, Part I: Phonology. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
• Harrison, K. David, David Rood, and Arienne Dwyer, eds. 2008. Lessons from documented endangered languages. Typological Studies in Language 78. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
• Engesæth, Tarjei, Mahire Yakup, and Arienne Dwyer. 2010 [2009]. Teklimakandin Salam: hazirqi zaman Uyghur tili qollanmisi / Greetings from the Teklimakan: a handbook of Modern Uyghur. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas ScholarWorks. ISBN 978-1-936153-03-9. Version 1.1. Pdf with streaming audio. Open Access publication, currently at 30,000 downloads. Mirror site: http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/ebook/mon/2010/ppn%20618306412.pdf
• Brenzinger, Matthias, Arienne M. Dwyer, Tjeerd de Graaf, Colette Grinevald, Michael Krauss, Osahito Miyaoka, Nicholas Ostler, Osamu Sakiyama, María E. Villalón, Akira Y. Yamamoto, Ofelia Zepeda [=UNESCO Expert Committee on Endangered Languages]. 2003. Language Vitality and Endangerment. UNESCO, adopted March 2003. Pdf.
• Dwyer, Arienne M. 2006. Historische Fragen zur Ethnogenese der Salaren. In Fenz, Hendrik und Petra Kappert, Turkologie für das 21. Jahrhundert : Herausforderungen zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Wiesbaden: Veröffentlichungen der Societas Uralo-Altaica 70, pp. 95–108. Preprint (Deutsch). Translation (English). http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7057
• Dwyer, Arienne M. 2008. Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor. In Harrison, K. David, David Rood, and Arienne Dwyer, eds. Lessons from documented endangered languages. Typological Studies in Language 78. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 111–128. Preprint.
• Dwyer, Arienne M. 2011. Uprooted and Replanted: Recontextualizing a Genre. Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları 21.47–82. Preprint. [Actually published in 2014, back-dated by TDA to 2011].
• Dwyer, Arienne M. 2016b. 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. Published online 2016-06-10: https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/21346 and (in a modified version) on 2016-09: http://tinyurl.com/jzajrec (Full URL: http://www.americananthro.org/LearnAndTeach/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=20650&navItemNumber=20708 )
• Dwyer, Arienne M. 2016d. Endangered Turkic languages of China. In Eker, Süer and Ülkü Çelik Şavk (eds.) Tehlikedeki Türk Dilleri: Kuramsal ve genel yaklaşımlar / Endangered Turkic Languages: Theoretical and general approaches. Vol 1. Ankara: International Turkic Academy and Astana: International Turkish-Kazakh University, 431–450. Preprint: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23398
• Dwyer, Arienne M. 2016e. Ordinary insubordination as transient discourse. In Nicholas Evans and Honoré Watanabe (eds). Insubordination. Benjamins, pp. 183–208. Preprint: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22671
• Dwyer, Arienne M. 2017a. Manuscript Technologies, Writing and Reading in Early 20th Century Kashgar. In Bellér-Hann, Ildikó, Sugawara Jun and Birgit Schlyter (eds.) Kashgar Revisited: The Life and Work of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring. Brill. Page proof: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23399

Websites:

• The Interactive Inner Asia project (documentation of endangered Turko-Mongolic languages of northern Tibet, China): https://iaia.ittc.ku.edu
• The Uyghur Light Verbs project (evaluating the status of “light verbs” as complex predicates, via a diachronic database of Uyghur): https://uyghur.ittc.ku.edu/uylvs.html
• Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online (creating digital facsimiles and one digital edition of a large corpus of late eastern Chaghatay manuscripts, including linguistic and cultural annotations): https://uyghur.ittc.ku.edu/atmo.html