Linguistic fieldwork

by Newman, Paul Ratliff, Martha Susan

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Title Statements

Full title :Linguistic fieldwork / edited by Paul Newman and Martha Ratliff.

Summary

This book is a collection of original essays on the practice of linguistic fieldwork and language documentation. Twelve of the leading field linguists in the world have written personal essays about the study of languages in a natural setting. Drawing on extensive research experience, they pass on the lessons they have learnt, review the techniques that they found worked best in practice, and discuss a variety of relevant topics, including the attitude of the linguist, the structure and content of the work session, the varied roles of native speakers, and the practical and personal challenges of doing research in an unfamiliar environment. Covering a wide range of field areas, and written in an accessible manner, the book will be indispensable to fieldworkers in linguistics, anthropology, folklore and oral history.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2001.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:2001.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 288 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780511810206, 0511810202
oclc:ocn817920194
LC Classification:P128.F53
Dewey Decimal:410/.7/2

Fieldwork as a state of mind / Larry M. Hyman -- Who shapes the record : the speaker and the linguist / Marianne Mithun -- Places and people : field sites and informants / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal -- Ulwa (Southern Sumu) : the beginnings of a language research project / Ken Hale -- Escaping Eurocentrism : fieldwork as a process of unlearning / David Gil -- Surprises in Sutherland : linguistic variability amidst social uniformity / Nancy C. Dorian -- The role of text collection and elicitation in linguistic fieldwork / Shobhana L. Chelliah -- Monolingual field research / Daniel L. Everett -- The give and take of fieldwork : noun classes and other concerns in Fatick, Senegal / Fiona McLaughlin and Thierno Seydou Sall -- Phonetic fieldwork / Ian Maddieson -- Learning as one goes / Keren Rice -- The last speaker is dead--long live the last speaker! / Nicholas Evans.

Subjects

Lingüística (ensaios) Linguistics -- Fieldwork Linguistik Linguistique -- Recherche sur le terrain Mercado de trabalho Methode Sociolingüística Taalwetenschap Veldwerk