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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Hello Lesley, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">It is by no means an “industry standard,” but you might be interested in having a look at a book colleagues and I just published on line. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="DELBIBLIO">Boerger, Brenda H., Stephen N. Self, Sarah Ruth Moeller, and D. Will Reiman. 2016. <span class="MsoBookTitle">Language and Culture Documentation Manual</span>. LeanPub first edition.<br><a href="https://leanpub.com/languageandculturedocumentationmanual">https://leanpub.com/languageandculturedocumentationmanual</a> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">It is only $15 (or $7.50 if you pay the minimum) and once subscribed all the updates on the first edition are free. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">We put it up as a draft in June and it is in quite a bit better shape now. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">There are recommendations for equipment and why which helps since Samarin’s text (which I used as an undergrad ever so many years ago) would have been talking about reel-to-reel tapes, as I recall. Of course, I do still have my copy. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Other good texts used in a Field Methods class I helped teach: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="Reference"><span class="Authorsname">Bowern, Claire</span>. 2008. <span class="Booktitle">Linguistic fieldwork: A practical guide</span>. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.</p><p class="Bulletedlist" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span>The website for the book can be found at <b><a href="http://www.ruf.rice.edu/%7Ebowern/fieldwork/" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none">http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bowern/fieldwork/</span></a></b>.</p><p class="Reference"><span class="Authorsname">Crowley, Terry</span>. 2007. <span class="Booktitle">Field linguistics: A beginner’s guide</span>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</p><p class="Reference"><span class="Authorsname">Newman, Paul</span> and <span class="Authorsname">Martha Ratliff</span>, eds. 2001. <span class="Booktitle">Linguistic fieldwork</span>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">And there are corrections and extra materials at the Bowern link. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Hope you find what you need. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">~Brenda</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Lesley Woods [mailto:<a href="mailto:lhwoods1@bigpond.com">lhwoods1@bigpond.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 17, 2016 9:18 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'RNLD list'<br><b>Subject:</b> [RNLD] Field Linguistics Texts</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Hi Everyone,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">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?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Cheers Lesley Woods</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p></div></body></html>