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Field Linguistics : A Beginner's Guide, PDF eBook

Field Linguistics : A Beginner's Guide PDF

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Crowley's voice of experience brings us the best practical fieldwork guide to date. Sensible, frank, and comprehensive, this book prepares beginning field workers for the rigours ahead and will save years of costly trial and error.

N. J. EnfieldThis book is a comprehensive, practical guide to field linguistics.

It deals in particular with the problems arising from the documentation of endangered languages.

Deploying a mixture of methodology and practical advice and drawing on his own immense experience, Terry Crowley shows how to record, analyse, and describe a language in the field.

He covers the challenges and problems the researcher is likely to encounter, offers guidance on issues ranging from ethics to everyday diplomacy, andprovides full discussions of corpus elicitation, how to keep track of data, salvage fieldwork, dealing with unexpected circumstances, and many other central topics. "We all learn by our mistakes," he writes, "and I have plenty of my own to share with you."

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