Abstract
This paper reports the development of the Social Cognition Parallax Interview Corpus (SCOPIC) for
Balinese, outlining its issues, challenges and prospects. SCOPIC is a collaborative research project,
aiming at the development of naturalistic but cross-linguistically-matched corpus data with enriched
annotations of grammatical categories relevant to social cognition (Barth and Evans, 2017: 1). The
data were collected using an innovative stimulus-elicitation methodology in a language documentation
context that results in exposition, cooperative conversation and narrative data in different task phases
(San Roque et al. 2012). This study used sixteen cards with family problem pictures that speakers must
describe and organize into a narrative, which also involves description, and problem-solving. The recorded
data were transcribed and processed using ELAN, enriched with tag annotations for social cognition
research. The current research topics in SCOPIC include social ramifications of depicted events,
reported speech and thought, possessed kin terms, and collective group terms. The development of
Balinese corpus is still in its initial stage at the moment. We have identified and coded human referents
in a small fraction of Badung, Singaraja, Gianyar and Nusa Penida corpus. We plan to investigate socialcognition
issues in the range of research topics as done by other members in the SCOPIC consortium.
We will discuss how Balinese can provide an interesting and unique angle and promising prospects in
terms of social-cognition issues because of the complex caste-based social registers/speech level systems
we have in Balinese. We will also report the technical issues in data collection and processing as
well as larger linguistic issues such as dialect/register coverage and future directions of the development
of multipurpose Balinese corpus.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 143-150pp |
Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Event | 8th International Conference on Austronesian and non-Austronesian languages and linterature - London Duration: 1 Jan 2017 → … |
Conference
Conference | 8th International Conference on Austronesian and non-Austronesian languages and linterature |
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Period | 1/01/17 → … |