Linguistic Fieldwork: A Practical Guide (Hardcover)

Claire Bowern

ISBN 10: 0230545378 / ISBN 13: 9780230545373

Editore: Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, 2008

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Hardcover. Doing field research isn't like working in the lab with chemicals: both the field worker and their consultants are real people who interact in complex ways. This book is a guide to conducting that interaction in order to produce research which benefits not only the linguistic community, but also language speakers. Given the rapidity of decline in global linguistic diversity, the next 30 years will be crucial for future knowledge of languages all over the world. This book is a practical guide to all aspects of doing linguistic fieldwork. The student is not only taken through how to describe phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax of language, but other aspects of primary data work are given equal attention, including grant application writing, obtaining ethics clearance, and problems which might arise while in the field. While the focus is on fieldwork on endangered languages spoken in remote communities, the advice will be useful to everyone beginning fieldwork. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Linguistic Fieldwork: A Practical Guide (Hardcover)
• Editore: Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0230545378
• ISBN 13: 9780230545373
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

This is a practical guide to all aspects of linguistic fieldwork. It not only discusses techniques for working on the phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse of an undescribed language, but also considers field technology, grant application preparation, ethical research methods and problems which might arise when in the field.

Informazioni sull?autore

CLAIRE BOWERN is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Rice University, USA and a member of the Australian National University's Centre for Research on Language Change. Her primary areas of research are language documentation/description and historical linguistics, particularly in Northern Australia.