The Oxford handbook of linguistic fieldwork /

This book offers a guide to linguistic fieldwork, reflecting its collaborative nature across the subfields of linguistics and disciplines such as astronomy, anthropology, biology, musicology, and ethnography.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Thieberger, Nick
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Oxford handbooks in linguistics.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • PART I. DATA COLLECTION AND 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 II. 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 III. 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 IV. 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.