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ISBN 10: 0230545378
ISBN 13: 9780230545373
Author: Claire Bowern
This is a practical guide to all aspects of linguistic fieldwork. It not only discusses techniques for working on the phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse of an undescribed language, but also considers field technology, grant application preparation, ethical research methods and problems which might arise when in the field.
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 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 session
3.2 Discovering a phoneme inventory
3.3 More on transcription
3.4 Common errors and cues
3.5 Data organization
3.6 What to record?
3.7 Summary and further reading
4 Data Organization and Archiving
4.1 Before the session
4.2 After the session
4.3 Software for data processing
4.4 Metadata
4.5 Processing field data
4.6 Archiving
4.7 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 Suprasegmentals
5.5 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 Handling unknown morphology
7.5 Common problems
7.6 Further topics in syntax and semantics
7.7 Where to from here?
8 Lexical and Semantic Data
8.1 Getting vocabulary
8.2 Lexicon compilation
8.3 Specific domains for lexical elicitation
8.4 Frequent lexicographic pitfalls
8.5 Further reading
9 Discourse, Pragmatics and Narrative Data
9.1 Working with texts
9.2 What to do with the materials
9.3 Discourse data
9.4 Topics for investigation in discourse and pragmatics
9.5 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 field
10.7 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
13.1 Published resources
13.2 Other people's fieldnotes
13.3 Recordings
13.4 Some further comments about old records
13.5 Preparing using others' research
13.6 Further reading
14 Fieldwork Results
14.1 General issues
14.2 Orthography design
14.3 Learners' guides and sketch grammars
14.4 Reference grammars
14.5 Training community members
14.6 Web materials
14.7 Talking books
14.8 Dictionaries and wordlists
14.9 Language revitalization
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Tags: Claire Bowern, Linguistic, Fieldwork
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