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Field Linguistics: A Beginner's Guide

Field Linguistics: A Beginner's Guide

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Linguistics

ISBN10: 0199213704
ISBN13: 9780199213702
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: Mar 15 2007
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
Crowley's voice of experience brings us the best practical fieldwork guide to date. Sensible, frank, and comprehensive, this book prepares beginning field workers for the rigours ahead and will save years of costly trial and error. N. J. Enfield

This book is a comprehensive, practical guide to field linguistics. It deals in particular with the problems arising from the documentation of endangered languages. Deploying a mixture of methodology and practical advice and drawing on his own immense experience, Terry Crowley shows how to record, analyse, and describe a language in the field. He covers the challenges and problems the researcher is likely to encounter, offers guidance on issues ranging from ethics to everyday diplomacy, and provides full discussions of corpus elicitation, how to keep track of data, salvage fieldwork, dealing with unexpected circumstances, and many other central topics. We all learn by our mistakes, he writes, and I have plenty of my own to share with you.

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