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LINGUISTIC FIELDWORK
A Practical Guide
Claire Bowern
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From Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date: Jan 2008
260 pages
Size 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
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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.

 


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Table of contents
Acknowledgements * Introduction * Using Technology in the Field: Audio, Video, and Computers * Starting to Work on a Language * Organising Data * Elicitation Strategies for Phonetics/Phonology * More on Elicitation: Basic Morphology and Syntax * Eliciting Morphology * Syntax * Lexical and Semantic Data and Dictionary Making * Discourse, Pragmatics, and Narrative Data * Consultants and Field Locations * Legal and Ethical Issues in Field Research * Grant Application Writing * Synthesising Previous Materials and Working with Old Records * The Results of Fieldwork: Returning Materials to the Community * Appendices * Index

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