"fieldwork"

[Karl Teeter]

		Friends, and Mark: Sorry if what I said seemed obscure.

			 To respond, (1)A "flame" is an ad hominem attack, in
			 my
			 vocabulary, and I seem to remember ad hominem attacks
			 on Victor Golla and
			 Benjamin Lee Whorf in Marks's messages.
			 	  (2) The term for what I said about a
			 linguist becoming a native
			 speaker is "metaphor".  I thought the context made
			 this clear, if not, I
			 am sorry.
			    My intention, reiterated in another message to the
			 list earlier
			 today, was to bring the discussion back to substance,
			 issues, and
			 bibliographical suggestions.  Mark has suggested that
			 he can give a
			 substantive exposition of his position beyond ad
			 hominem attacks and
			 attempts to be funny, and I hope he will!  Yours, kvt

			 On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Mark P. Line wrote:
> Karl Teeter wrote:
> >
> >        We certainly seem to be getting into strange territory in this
> > discussion of fieldwork, ranging from flames (which have no place on
> > this list, Mark)
>
> Whom do you believe I flamed on this list? And have you chosen to believe
> not only that I have been flaming somebody, but that I am the only person
> here who (ostensibly) does so -- or why else did you choose to single me
> out by name?
>
>
> > to all this about how you've got to actually live in the
> > community to do it, which is nonsense.
>
> You're entitled to your opinion, as we all are.
>
>
> > But happily, serious field research is
> > possible without becoming a native speaker and without living in the
> > community.
>
> How does a linguist "become a native speaker" of the language she's
> studying?
>
>
> > Some go out into the "bush" and some do not, but the former
> > does not guarantee their success nor the latter their failure.  Let us
> > see if we can't talk about field work without this irrelevance.
>
> First, we would have to agree that it's really irrelevant as you claim. We
> don't, and probably won't.
>
>
> -- Mark
>
> (Mark P. Line   ----   Bellevue, Washington   ----   mline at ix.netcom.com)
>
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