Word hunters : field linguists on fieldwork /
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Imprint: | Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018] ©2018 |
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Description: | vi, 176 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in language companion series (SLCS), 0165-7763 ; volume 194 Studies in language companion series ; v. 194. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11560890 |
Summary: | In Word Hunters , eleven distinguished linguists reflect on their career-spanning linguistic fieldwork. Over decades, each has repeatedly stood up to physical, intellectual, interpersonal, intercultural, and sometimes political challenges in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. These scholar-explorers have enlightened the world to the inner workings of languages in remote communities of Africa (West, East, and South), Amazonia, the Arctic, Australia, the Caucasus, Oceania, Siberia, and East Asia. They report some linguistic eureka moments, but also discuss cultural missteps, illness, and the other challenges of pursuing linguistic data in extreme circumstances. They write passionately about language death and their responsibilities to speech communities. The stories included here--the stuff of departmental and family legends--are published publicly for the first time. |
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Physical Description: | vi, 176 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9789027200273 9027200270 9789027264442 |
ISSN: | 0165-7763 ; |