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Subject(s)

• Linguistics—Field work [Browse]

Related name

• Thieberger, Nick [Browse]

Series

Oxford handbooks in linguistics. [More in this series]

Summary note

This text 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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Introduction
• Part One: Data Collection Management
• 1. Audio and video recording techniques for linguistic research – 2. A guide to stimulus-based elicitation for semantic categories
• 3. Morphosyntactic analysis in the field, a guide to the guides
• 4. Linguistic data management
• Part Two: Recording performance
• 5. Sociolinguistic fieldwork
• 6. Reasons for documenting gestures and suggestions for how to go about it
• 7. Including music and the temporal arts in language documentation – Part Three: Collaborating with other disciplines
• 8. Anything can happen: the verb lexicon and interdisciplinary fieldwork
• 9. Understanding human relations (kinship systems)
• 10. The language of food
• 11. Botanical collecting
• 12. Ethnobiology - basic methods for documenting biological knowledge represented in languages –13. Technology
• 14. Fieldwork in ethnomathematics
• 15. Cultural astronomy for linguists
• 16. Geography: documenting terms for landscape features --17. Toponymy: recording and analysing placenames in a language area
• Part 4: Collaborating with the community
• 18. Ethical issues in linguistic fieldwork --19. Copyright and other legal concerns
• 20. Training linguistics students for the realities of fieldwork – References – Index.

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Other title(s)

Linguistic fieldwork

ISBN

• 9780191744112 (electronic book)
• 9780191632822
• 0191632821
• 9780191744112
• 0191744115
• 9780191632815
• 0191632813

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