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The Oxford handbook of linguistic fieldwork / edited by Nicholas Thieberger.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012Description: xiv, 545 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0199571880
  • 9780199571888
Other title:
  • Linguistic fieldwork
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 22 410.723 OXF
Contents:
Introduction / Nicholas Thieberger -- pt. 1. Data collection and management: Audio and video recording techniques for linguistic research / Anna Margetts and Andrew Margetts -- A guide to stimulus-based elicitation for semantic categories / Asifa Majid -- Morphosyntactic analysis in the field : a guide to the guides / Ulrike Mosel -- Linguistic data management / Nicholas Thieberger and Andrea L. Berez -- pt. 2. Recording and performance : Sociolinguistic fieldwork / Miriam Meyerhoff, Chie Adachi, Golnaz Nanbakhsh, and Anna Strycharz -- Reasons for documenting gestures and suggestions for how to go about it / Mandana Seyfeddinipur -- Including music and the temporal arts in language documentation / Linda Barwick -- pt. 3. Collaborating with other disciplines: Anything can happen : the verb lexicon and interdisciplinary fieldwork / Nicholas Evans -- Understanding human relations (kinship systems) / Laurent Dousset -- The language of food / Nancy J. Pollock -- Botanical collecting / Barry J. Conn -- Ethnobiology : basic methods for documenting biological knowledge represented in languages / Will McClatchey -- Technology / Pierre Lemonnier -- Fieldwork in ethnomathematics / Marc Chemillier -- Cultural astronomy for linguists / Jarita Holbrook -- Geography : documenting terms for landscape features / Andrew G. Turk, David M. Mark, Carolyn O'Meara, and David Stea -- Toponymy : recording and analysing placenames in a language area / David Nash and Jane Simpson -- pt. 5. Collaborating with the community : Ethical issues in linguistic fieldwork / Keren Rice -- Copyright and other legal concerns / Paul Newman -- Training linguistics students for the realities of fieldwork / Monica Macaulay.
Summary: This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to linguistic fieldwork, reflecting its collaborative nature across the subfields of linguistics and disciplines such as astronomy, anthropology, biology, musicology, and ethnography. The handbook is an indispensible source, guide, and reference for everyone involved in linguistic and cultural fieldwork
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Nicholas Thieberger -- pt. 1. Data collection and management: Audio and video recording techniques for linguistic research / Anna Margetts and Andrew Margetts --
A guide to stimulus-based elicitation for semantic categories / Asifa Majid -- Morphosyntactic analysis in the field : a guide to the guides / Ulrike Mosel -- Linguistic data management / Nicholas Thieberger and Andrea L. Berez -- pt. 2. Recording and performance : Sociolinguistic fieldwork / Miriam Meyerhoff, Chie Adachi, Golnaz Nanbakhsh, and Anna Strycharz --
Reasons for documenting gestures and suggestions for how to go about it / Mandana Seyfeddinipur -- Including music and the temporal arts in language documentation / Linda Barwick -- pt. 3. Collaborating with other disciplines: Anything can happen : the verb lexicon and interdisciplinary fieldwork / Nicholas Evans -- Understanding human relations (kinship systems) / Laurent Dousset -- The language of food / Nancy J. Pollock -- Botanical collecting / Barry J. Conn -- Ethnobiology : basic methods for documenting biological knowledge represented in languages / Will McClatchey -- Technology / Pierre Lemonnier -- Fieldwork in ethnomathematics / Marc Chemillier -- Cultural astronomy for linguists / Jarita Holbrook -- Geography : documenting terms for landscape features / Andrew G. Turk, David M. Mark, Carolyn O'Meara, and David Stea -- Toponymy : recording and analysing placenames in a language area / David Nash and Jane Simpson -- pt. 5. Collaborating with the community : Ethical issues in linguistic fieldwork / Keren Rice -- Copyright and other legal concerns / Paul Newman -- Training linguistics students for the realities of fieldwork / Monica Macaulay.

This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to linguistic fieldwork, reflecting its collaborative nature across the subfields of linguistics and disciplines such as astronomy, anthropology, biology, musicology, and ethnography. The handbook is an indispensible source, guide, and reference for everyone involved in linguistic and cultural fieldwork

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