particular incidents while recordings

[Oladipo Salami]

You could take a look at a paper I published on this issue - relating particularly to the 'noisy' and 'unco-operative environments in the global south - specifically Africa- in Anthropological Linguistics, 28,Vol. 4. pp. 473 - 483 (1986). 
Dipo Salami 


--- On Tue, 6/1/09, mostari hind <hmostari at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: mostari hind <hmostari at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: particular incidents while recordings
> To: lgpolicy-list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu
> Date: Tuesday, 6 January, 2009, 6:48 PM
> Hi Damien , 
> many thanks for your answer . Inded, I don't have the
> Labov's article, could you send it as soon as possible 
>  
> best regards 
> Mostari 
> Algeria 
> --- On Tue, 1/6/09, Damien Hall <djh514 at york.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> From: Damien Hall <djh514 at york.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: particular incidents while recordings
> To: lgpolicy-list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu
> Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 2:43 PM
> 
> Dear Mostari
> 
> Unfortunately, most sociolinguistic projects have some
> amount of problems
> similar to the ones you describe with your fieldwork!
> There's a good
> tradition of work on how to get around these problems: ways
> to ensure good
> recordings, ways to get informants to talk, etc etc.
> (Unfortunately, again,
> there's no accepted solution to the problem of people
> being late; you just
> have to try to predict the people who you think might be
> late and deal with it
> accordingly ...!) Ways to get people to talk include using
> 'interview
> modules' (planned sets of questions and directions for
> conversation,
> designed for specific studies and intended to deal with
> topics of interest).
> 
> A short and very good summary of ways to do this is in the
> following book:
> 
> Tagliamonte, Sali. 2006. _Analyzing Sociolinguistic
> Variation_.
> 
> (The book was published by either Oxford University Press
> or Cambridge
> University Press; I can't remember right now.)
> 
> I would recommend that you look at that book if you can. A
> good short article
> on fieldwork techniques is Labov (1981) _Field Methods of
> the Philadelphia
> Language Change and Variation Project_; if you can't
> get hold of the
> Tagliamonte book, I could send you a copy of the Labov
> article in PDF.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Damien Hall
> 
> -- Damien Hall
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