sources on fieldnotes in ling anth?

Fri Aug 8 16:20:27 UTC 2014

Perhaps not as germane as the other references...but of possible interest
and use...Nick Theiberger's

Paper and Talk: A manual for reconstituting materials in Australian
Indigenous languages <http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/asp/aspbooks/papertalk.html>

Regards,
Shannon

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Tatsuma Padoan <tp26 at soas.ac.uk> wrote:

> This is a huge topic in linguistic anthropology, connected to the
> production of transcripts.
> Duranti also posted a useful list of references in his webpage, which I
> copy here for convenience (including his aforementioned textbook):
> http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/duranti/audvis/annotate.htm
>
> Best,
> Tatsuma
>
> Duranti, A. (1997). Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge
> University Press.
>
> Edwards, J. A., & Lampert, M. D. (Eds.). (1993). Talking Data:
> Transcription and Coding in Discourse Research . Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence
> Erlbaum.
>
> Luebs, M. A. (1996). Frozen Speech: The Rhetoric of Transcription. Ann
> Arbor: University of Michigan Unpublished Dissertation.
>
> Ochs, E. (1979). Transcription as Theory. In E. Ochs & B. B. Schieffelin
> (Eds.), Developmental Pragmatics (pp. 43-72). New York: Academic Press.
>
> Ricoeur, P. (1971). The Model of the Text: Meaningful Action Considered as
> Text. Social Research, 38, 529-62.
>
> Sacks, H., Schegloff, E. A., & Jefferson, G. (1978). A Simplest Systematics
> for the Organization of Turn-Taking fo Conversation. In J. Schenkein (Ed.),
> Studies in the Organization of Conversational Interaction (pp. 7-57). New
> York: Academic Press.
>
> Schieffelin, B. B. (1990). The Give and Take of Everyday Life: Language
> Socialization of Kaluli Children. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
>
>
>
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> On 8 August 2014 13:09, Claire Bowern <clairebowern at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > There is substantial work on this in linguistics. Try any of the
> > recent introductions to linguistic fieldwork:
> >
> >
> http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=1,7&q=%22linguistic+fieldwork%22+field+notes
> > Claire
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Steven Black <stevepblack at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > You might try a chapter from Duranti's 1997 textbook "linguistic
> > anthropology." A little older but still relevant.
> > > Best
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > >> On Aug 8, 2014, at 3:46 AM, Colleen Cotter <c.m.cotter at QMUL.AC.UK>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Re fieldnotes and field practices, I use chapters from H. Russell
> > Bernard's Research Methods in Anthropology ("Field Notes: How to Take
> Them,
> > Code Them, Manage Them" as well as his chapters on interviews). I can
> also
> > send you the one-page handout I've prepared for my students about how to
> > structure their field notebooks (based on Bernard and Marcus), which I
> > require for their short "Language and Life in London" one-semester local
> > mini-ethnographies.
> > >>
> > >> The field notebooks are also essential for my collaborative engagement
> > with the students and their classroom peer field discussions. They can
> > include data via all instrumentalities. I also do poster sessions at the
> > end of the year -- another way for students to synthesize and present
> their
> > work to the larger community, and demonstrate the utility of their field
> > practices. My colleagues are always impressed by what undergraduates
> > achieve.
> > >>
> > >> Emerson's Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes is always on my
> "Recommended"
> > list for grad students. Whether it's cultural or linguistic anthropology
> is
> > irrelevant at this stage. Alta Mira Press's Ethnographer's Toolkit
> > compendium might also be worth checking out. Natalie Schilling's
> > Sociolinguistic Fieldwork provides another detailed approach to data
> > collection and analysis as well as a nuanced understanding of culture,
> > context, and language and how we account for it from a well-informed
> > (mostly) variationist perspective.
> > >>
> > >> More broadly, there's also Laura Ahern's excellent book (Living
> > Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology -- which I find more
> > relevant and practice- and theory-situated than the Blommaert one);
> Muriel
> > Saville-Troike's extremely useful textbook (Ethnography of Communication)
> > which covers alot of ground in terms of linganth subdiscipline context
> and
> > linguistic range; and Michael Agar's short Speaking of Ethnography (Sage)
> > -- which students keep telling me helps them make sense of their
> fieldnotes
> > and their field endeavors.
> > >>
> > >> best,
> > >> Colleen
> > >> ps -- I can also talk about the differences between US and UK-Euro
> > approaches and assumptions about linguistic anthropology/ linguistic
> > ethnography/ethnolinguistics and the cultural-intellectual ramifications
> of
> > the US four-fields distinction! This might be a good topic for the SLA
> > blog/Anthropology News/Anthropology Today at some point...
> > >>
> > >> ==================================
> > >> Colleen Cotter
> > >> Linguistics Department
> > >> School of Languages, Linguistics and Film
> > >> Queen Mary, University of London
> > >> Mile End Road
> > >> London E1 4NS
> > >> UK
> > >> email: c.m.cotter at qmul.ac.uk
> > >>
> > >> ________________________________________
> > >> From: Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group <
> > LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of King, Dr Alexander D. <
> > a.king at ABDN.AC.UK>
> > >> Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 9:53 PM
> > >> To: LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> > >> Subject: Re: sources on fieldnotes in ling anth?
> > >>
> > >> I really like the short book by Brice and Heath titled _On
> > Ethnography_. It is a linguistic anthropology take on methods exploring
> > writing practices and literacy as well as more general stuff. They
> address
> > fieldnotes a bit. Blommaert has a book on ethnography that he co-authored
> > with a phd student that is also interesting and accessible to
> > undergraduates, although the project scale is bigger.
> > >>
> > >> I am also a believer in fieldnotes. The language documentation
> > sub-discipline in linguistics has been exploding with methodological
> > articles. You could browse the issue of Language Documentation and
> > Conservation (http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/), for example. That stuff is
> > very comprehensive and systematic, so there may be something good for
> > teaching. To be honest, I think they have just re-discovered Boas, so I
> > don't find it as intellectually innovative as many of my colleagues in
> > linguistics find it, but linguists are good about systematic approaches
> to
> > "data" and "metadata" (their two terms for fieldnotes).
> > >>
> > >> best,
> > >> Alex
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> On 7 Aug, 2014, at 7:57 PM, Evelyn Dean Olmsted <evelyn.dean at UPR.EDU
> >
> > wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Hi all,
> > >>>
> > >>> I'm teaching an undergrad ling anth methods seminar this semester.
>  I'm
> > >>> familiar with several good sources on writing fieldnotes in cultural
> > >>> anthropology, but has anything been written on fieldnotes in
> linguistic
> > >>> anthropology, specifically?  The subfield has, of course, unique
> > challenges
> > >>> and requirements related to documenting linguistic data and the
> > details of
> > >>> verbal interactions.  I for one am a firm believer that fieldnotes
> > remain
> > >>> an important data source, whether to supplement recordings or in
> their
> > own
> > >>> right when recording is not feasible.
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks,
> > >>> Evelyn
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> Dra. Evelyn Dean-Olmsted
> > >>> Catedrática Auxiliar, Departamento de Sociología y Antropología
> > >>> Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto Río Piedras
> > >>> evelyn.dean at upr.edu
> > >>
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