[RNLD] Field Linguistics Texts

[Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada]

Dear Leslie,

In addition to the already-mentioned manuals and handbooks, there's also:

   1. Abbi, Anvita. 2001. *A manual of linguistic field work and structures
   of Indian languages*. Munich: Lincom Europa.
   2. Kibrik, A. E. 1977. *The methodology of field investigations in
   linguistics: Setting up the problem* (Janua  linguarum).  The  Hague:
   Mouton.
   3. Vaux, Bert and Justin Cooper. 1999.* Introduction to linguistic field
   methods* (Coursebooks in linguistics 1) Munich: Lincom Europa. [there is
   a new 2007 edition with Emily Tucker published by
   Wipf and Stock Publishers]

Kibrik's book is interesting from a historical perspective but perhaps not
the best choice for a field methods class given the availability of more
recent and more comprehensive texts. Abbi's book is particularly useful if
you are working with an Indian language in your class. Finally, while the
Vaux and Cooper book might not include information on technology use and
ethics as for example Bowern (2008) or Chelliah and De Reuse (2011) do, I
remember finding it extremely useful when it was used in my first field
methods class as an MA student back in 2009 because of its organization
around levels of structure.

Best,
Jorge
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Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada
Banting-Killam Postdoctoral Fellow
First Nations and Endangered Languages Program
University of British Columbia

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:24 AM, Donna Starks <D.Starks at latrobe.edu.au>
wrote:

> There is also the edited volume that Kerry Taylor-Leech and I  just
> published on Doing Research within Communities. It’s geared more to applied
> linguistics and language education research but its got basic info that
> might be useful on ethical issues, language choice in fieldwork etc.
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> Taylor-Leech, K. & D. Starks. 2016. Doing research within communities.
> Routledge.
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> Cheers,
>
> Donna
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> *From:* Lauren Gawne [mailto:lauren.gawne at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, 19 August 2016 4:33 PM
> *To:* Nicholas Evans <nicholas.evans at anu.edu.au>
> *Cc:* Lesley Woods <lhwoods1 at bigpond.com>; RNLD list <
> r-n-l-d at unimelb.edu.au>
> *Subject:* Re: [RNLD] Field Linguistics Texts
>
>
>
> Hi Leslie,
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> There is also:
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> Chelliah, Shobhana L., & De Reuse, Willem J. (2011). Handbook of
> descriptive linguistic fieldwork. London: Springer.
>
> The book is broader than would be needed for a field methods class, but it
> is usefully comprehensive.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lauren
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> On 19 August 2016 at 02:36, Nicholas Evans <nicholas.evans at anu.edu.au>
> wrote:
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> Hi all, I think Samarin's manual is well and truly out of date. There are
> short, readable monographs by Terry Crowley and by Claire Bowern, the
> excellent collection of chapters in Ratliff & Newman ('Linguistic
> Fieldwork'), and most recently the OUP publication edited by Nick
> Thieberger, which emphasises the interdisciplinary nature of linguistic
> fieldwork. Finally, though it doesn't bear the title 'fieldwork', the
> collection of chapters on language documentation in Gippert, Himmelmann and
> Mosel (2006) remains an excellent source.
>
>
>
> Best Nick Evans, CoEDL, ANU
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>
> *From:* Lesley Woods <lhwoods1 at bigpond.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 18, 2016 12:18:22 PM
> *To:* 'RNLD list'
> *Subject:* [RNLD] Field Linguistics Texts
>
>
>
> Hi Everyone,
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>
> Is anyone able to tell me what text/s on linguistic field work are being
> most commonly used these days?  Keren Rice (2006) says that Samarin’s
> classic book  “Field Linguistics: A Guide to Linguistic Fieldwork” is the
> best known text and had not been replaced as of 2006. I was wondering if
> anything has been published since and what is most commonly used these days?
>
>
>
> Cheers Lesley Woods
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