36.2799, Books: Linguistics and Oral History: Fitzgerald (ed.) (2025)

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Date: 17-Sep-2025
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Linguistics and Oral History: Fitzgerald (ed.) (2025)


Title: Linguistics and Oral History
Subtitle: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/linguistics-and-oral-history-9781350458239/

Editor(s): Chris Fitzgerald

Hardback, ISBN: 9781350458239, Price: £95.00

Abstract:

This edited volume brings together linguistic and oral history
practitioners to explore the intersections between both disciplines.
This book is comprised of contributions from linguists (corpus
linguists, sociolinguists, dialectologists and second language
acquisition experts) to present how they investigate oral history
texts from a linguistic perspective as well as contributions from oral
history practitioners who focus on language-related aspects of their
subject.
In presenting perspectives from both disciplines, this book exposes
the synergies that exist between oral history and linguistics
including methodological parallels in constructing and analysing
written transcriptions of spoken events, analytical approaches to
determining salient themes and linguistic items, relevant theoretical
perspectives that frame discourse practices in oral histories and the
practical considerations facing researchers when investigating large
samples of spoken discourse.
This book shows that oral historians and linguists are often doing the
same things in different ways and makes the case for more
collaboration between the disciplines to promote exchange of ideas,
efficiency of practice and reciprocal progression.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics




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