Linguistic Fieldwork

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Paperback | 11 September 2001

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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.

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'This collection will play an invaluable role in maintaining the growing renewal of interest in an area of linguistics which for a good number of years has been neglected.' Forum for Modern Language Studies '... there are certainly no bad essays here ... Several of the essays are enhanced by photographs, and the quality of the proofreading is excellent ... Before the appearance of this book, budding linguistic fieldworkers had often to learn about the nitty-gritty of fieldwork through conversations with existing fieldworkers, or through reading the introductions to grammars and other works which are the fruit of fieldwork. This book, with its zest and flashes of humour, will give new fieldworkers a good idea of what to expect in the field, and at least some inkling of why people go there - and why they usually return again and again.' The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Linguistics Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

Introduction Paul Newman and Martha Ratliff
Fieldwork as a state of mind Larry
Who shapes the record: the speaker and the linguist
Places and people: field sites and informants
Ulwa (Southern Sumu): the beginnings of a language research project
Escaping Eurocentrism: fieldwork as a process of unlearning
Surprises in Sutherland: linguistic variability amidst social uniformity
The role of text collection and elicitation in linguistic fieldwork
Monolingual field research
The give and take of fieldwork: noun classes and other concerns in Fatick, Senegal Fiona McLaughlin and Thierno
Phonetic Fieldwork
Learning as one goes
The last speaker is dead - long live the last speaker!
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