The Oxford handbook of linguistic fieldwork
By: edited by Nicholas Thieberger
Series: Oxford handbooks in linguistics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 545
ISBN-13: 9780199571888
Subjects: Linguistics; Fieldwork
Other titles: Handbook of linguistic fieldwork
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-525) and indexes.