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Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork Felicity Meakins

Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork By Felicity Meakins

Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork by Felicity Meakins

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Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork offers a diverse and practical introduction to research methods used in field linguistics. This book is essential reading for students studying modules relating to linguistic fieldwork or those looking to embark upon field research.

Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork Summary

Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork by Felicity Meakins

A short and accessible introduction to field linguistics that is ideal for students coming to this topic for the first time.

Covers the core methodologies, ethical practices and procedures for researching languages in the field so students can get both a theoretical and practical understanding.

Introduces linguistic fieldwork for a range of subfields of linguistics which means that this book will be key for students across the entire spectrum of linguistics

Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork Reviews

This book aims to be a one-stop introduction to fieldwork as it is currently conceived, covering not only the expected topics, but also a variety of areas that are not standardly found in the fieldwork literature, including sign language, child language acquisition, contact languages, and verbal arts, all areas that figure prominently in language documentation today. It will be an invaluable resource for the novice fieldworker, with much of value for the experienced one as well.

Keren Rice, University of Toronto, Canada

The authors take exquisite account of the community contexts in which linguistic documentation and discovery unfold, which they work into a humanistically and scientifically rich, holistic introduction to the subject.

Anthony C. Woodbury, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

About Felicity Meakins

Felicity Meakins is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland. She specialises in the documentation of Australian languages in the Victoria River District in northern Australia and the effect of English on Indigenous languages.

Jennifer Green is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her main research interests are descriptive linguistics, lexicography, multimodality in narrative practices and sign language.

Myfany Turpin is a Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. Her research is in descriptive linguistics, poetry, song, ethnobiology and language revitalization.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. Planning for fieldwork

3. Equipment and recording

4. Data management, annotation and archiving

5. Phonetics and Phonology

6. Morpho-syntax

7. Semantic fieldwork and lexicography

8. Sign and gesture

9. Child language acquisition

10. Contact Languages

11. Verbal art

12. A final word

Appendices

Map of major languages referred to in this book

Answers to Exercises

Glossary and Abbreviations

Index

Additional information

NLS9780415786133
9780415786133
0415786134
Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork by Felicity Meakins
Felicity Meakins
Understanding Language
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2018-03-29
348
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