The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork (Oxford Handbooks)

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. Experienced Scholars And Fieldworkers Explain The Methods And Approaches Needed To Understand A Language In Its Full Cultural Context And To Document It Accessibly And Enduringly. They Consider The Application Of New Technological Approaches To Recording And Documentation, But Never Lose Sight Of The Crucial Relationship Between Subject And Researcher. The Book Is Timely: An Increased Awareness Of Dying Languages And Vanishing Dialects Has Stimulated The Impetus For Recording Them As Well As The Funds Required To Do So. The Handbook Is An Indispensable Source, Guide, And Reference For Everyone Involved In Linguistic And Cultural Fieldwork.--publisher's Website. Introduction / Nicholas Thieberger. -- Part One: 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 Cetegories / Asifa Majid ; Morphosyntactic Analysis In The Field, A Guide To The Guides / Ulrike Mosel ; Linguistic Data Management / Nicholas Thieberger And Andrea Berez. -- Part Two: Recording Performance. Sociolinguistic Fieldwork / Miriam Meyerhoff, Chie Adachi, Golnaz Nanbakhsh, And Anna Strycharz ; Gesture - Understanding The Role Of Gesture In Communication, How Gestures Can Be Described / Mandana Seyfeddinipur ; Including Music And The Temporal Arts In Language Documentation / Linda Barwick. -- Part Three: 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 Pollock ; Botanical Collecting / Barry 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 - Understanding How To Identify Landforms And Their Uses / Andrew Turk, David Mark, Carolyn O'meara, And David Stea ; Toponymy / David Nash And Jane Simpson. -- Part Four: 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. Edited By Nicholas Thieberger. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [473]-525) And Indexes. Cover Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction 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 References Index of Names A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z Index of Topics A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z