Field linguistics : a beginner's guide /
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| Author / Creator: | Crowley, Terry. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 202 pages) : maps |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford linguistics Oxford linguistics. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11152688 |
| Summary: | Crowley's voice of experience brings us the best practical fieldwork guide to date. Sensible, frank, and comprehensive, this book prepares beginning field workers for the rigours ahead and will save years of costly trial and error. N. J. EnfieldThis book is a comprehensive, practical guide to field linguistics. It deals in particular with the problems arising from the documentation of endangered languages. Deploying a mixture of methodology and practical advice and drawing on his own immense experience, Terry Crowley shows how to record, analyse, and describe a language in the field. He covers the challenges and problems the researcher is likely to encounter, offers guidance on issues ranging from ethics to everyday diplomacy, andprovides full discussions of corpus elicitation, how to keep track of data, salvage fieldwork, dealing with unexpected circumstances, and many other central topics. "We all learn by our mistakes," he writes, "and I have plenty of my own to share with you." |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 202 pages) : maps |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-196) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191536366 0191536369 9780199284344 0199284342 9780199213702 0199213704 9781429470575 1429470577 9786611149253 6611149252 128114925X 9781281149251 |