Linguistic Fieldwork [electronic resource] : A Practical Guide /
Bowern, C.author.
Linguistic Fieldwork offers practical guidance on areas such as applying for funding, the first session on a new language, writing up the data and returning materials to communities. This expanded second edition provides new content on the results of research, on prosody elicitation, on field experiment design, and on working in complex syntax.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 1.1 About this book; 1.2 What is the 'field' and what is 'fieldwork'?; 1.3 The term 'informant'; 1.4 Fieldwork and 'theory'; 1.5 Fieldwork and identity; 1.6 Who's working on the language?; 1.7 Summary and further reading; 2 Technology in the Field; 2.1 Why make recordings?; 2.2 Choosing recording equipment; 2.3 Computers; 2.4 Pen and paper; 2.5 Recording practicalities; 2.6 Checklist for equipment setup; 2.7 Summary and further reading; 3 Starting to Work on a Language
3.1 What to do at the first session3.2 Discovering a phoneme inventory; 3.3 More on transcription; 3.4 Common errors and cues; 3.5 Data organisation; 3.6 What to record; 3.7 Summary; 4 Data Organisation and Archiving; 4.1 Before the session; 4.2 After the session; 4.3 Software for data processing; 4.4 Fieldnotes; 4.5 Metadata; 4.6 Processing field data; 4.7 Interlinearising; 4.8 Archiving; 4.9 Organising data in field methods classes; 4.10 Further reading; 5 Fieldwork on Phonetics and Phonology; 5.1 Broad and narrow transcription; 5.2 Research design; 5.3 Further topics in phonetic research
5.4 Suprasegmentals5.5 Further topics in phonology; 5.6 Further reading; 6 Eliciting: Basic Morphology and Syntax; 6.1 Why do elicitation?; 6.2 First elicitation of sentences; 6.3 Types of data collection; 6.4 Potential problems; 6.5 Summary; 7 Further Morphology and Syntax; 7.1 Elicitation of paradigms; 7.2 Productivity; 7.3 Selected topics in morphology; 7.4 Variation and optionality; 7.5 Discourse-based morphology; 7.6 Handling unknown morphology; 7.7 Common problems; 7.8 Commonly missed constructions; 7.9 Where to from here?; 8 Lexical and Semantic Data; 8.1 Getting vocabulary
8.2 Lexicon compilation8.3 Specific domains for lexical elicitation; 8.4 Frequent lexicographic pitfalls; 8.5 Further reading; 9 Discourse, Pragmatics, and Narrative Data; 9.1 Types of naturalistic data; 9.2 Working with naturalistic data; 9.3 What to do with the materials; 9.4 Discourse data; 9.5 Topics for investigation in discourse and pragmatics; 9.6 Further reading; 10 Consultants and Field Locations; 10.1 Field methods classes and the field; 10.2 Choosing a field site and preparation; 10.3 Choosing a consultant; 10.4 Linguist-consultant interactions; 10.5 Working with semi-speakers
10.6 Living in the field10.7 Coming back from the field; 10.8 Further reading; 11 Ethical Field Research; 11.1 Preliminaries; 11.2 Ethics of recording; 11.3 Ethics and archiving; 11.4 Acknowledging speakers; 11.5 Permissions; 11.6 Other ethical issues in research; 11.7 Payment; 11.8 Minority areas and endangered languages; 11.9 Further reading; 12 Grant Application Writing; 12.1 Steps to grant writing; 12.2 What to include in a grant application; 12.3 Budgets; 12.4 Human subjects applications; 12.5 Grant management and record keeping; 12.6 What if you can't get a grant?
13 Working with Existing Materials
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Linguistic Fieldwork offers practical guidance on areas such as applying for funding, the first session on a new language, writing up the data and returning materials to communities. This expanded second edition provides new content on the results of research, on prosody elicitation, on field experiment design, and on working in complex syntax.
Applied linguistics.
Applied Linguistics.