Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork

Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Reuse, Willem J. de

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“…Philologically grounded interest in the collection of wordlists was also popular in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Europe among scholars and laypersons alike; see Chelliah and De Reuse (2010) for a full account of the early history of linguistic fieldwork.…”

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Linguistic Fieldwork

Berez¹

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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This article describes the undertaking of linguistic fieldwork, in which linguists study languages as they are spoken in a naturally occurring domain, rather than in a laboratory or via self-introspection. This article presents the history of linguistic fieldwork, the rise of language documentation as a major paradigm for fieldwork, fieldwork research methods, ethics and community relations, and data management issues.

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Linguistic Fieldwork

Berez¹

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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“…Nessa tradição, toda a linguística descritiva tinha origem em trabalhos de campo com interação com falantes nativos (CHELLIAH; DE REUSE, 2011). Esse é o modo de trabalho de campo reconhecido como legítimo e defendido por muitos linguistas como Everett (2001) e Aikhenvald (2007.…”

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“…Nesse ponto, é essencial conhecer o histórico dos trabalhos de linguistas na comunidade para compreender a percepção que os falantes têm do linguista de campo. Muitas vezes, o papel do linguista se confunde com o dos colonizadores, dos missionários ou dos agentes de saúde (CHELLIAH; DE REUSE, 2011). Além disso, Rice (2012) e Bowern (2008 chamam a atenção para o fato de que a negociação deve ser constante, pois é sempre possível haver mudanças nas decisões da comunidade, e elas devem ser sempre respeitadas.…”

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Trabalho de campo para análise linguística em Semântica Formal

Sanchez‐Mendes¹

2014

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O objetivo deste artigo é descrever e justificar a metodologia utilizada nos trabalhos de campo para coleta de dados linguísticos para análise em Semântica Formal. O trabalho procura esclarecer algumas questões teóricas, práticas e éticas envolvidas num trabalho como esse. Sua tese principal é a de que o paradigma teórico determina a metodologia e o tipo de corpus coletado. Em Semântica Formal, especificamente, a metodologia defendida é a elicitação controlada.

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“…As rich records of native speaker knowledge, they are a valuable form of language documentation and they provide data that can be used for various purposes, be it lexicography, semantic typology, or ethnography. Folk definitions gained prominence in a relatively brief period associated with ethnoscience and cognitive anthropology (Weinreich 1962;Casagrande & Hale 1967;Perchonock & Werner 1969;Franklin 1971;Mathiot 1967Mathiot , 1979, but were all but forgotten afterwards; they make no appearance in recent reference works on linguistic and anthropological fieldwork (Newman & Ratliff 2001;Bernard 2006;Chelliah & Reuse 2011). Perhaps the tide is turning: native speaker paraphrases are briefly discussed in Bowern's textbook on field work (2007: 110) and are used to great effect in Kockelman's work on Q'eqchi' (2010).…”

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Folk definitions in linguistic fieldwork

Dingemanse

2015

Culture and Language Use

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Informal paraphrases by native speaker consultants are crucial tools in linguistic fieldwork. When recorded, archived, and analysed, they offer rich data that can be mined for many purposes, from lexicography to semantic typology and from ethnography to the investigation of gesture and speech. This paper describes a procedure for the collection and analysis of folk definitions that are native (in the language under study rather than the language of analysis), informal (spoken rather than written), and multi-modal (preserving the integrity of gesture-speech composite utterances). The value of folk definitions is demonstrated using the case of ideophones, words that are notoriously hard to study using traditional elicitation methods. Three explanatory strategies used in a set of folk definitions of ideophones are examined: the offering of everyday contexts of use, the use of depictive gestures, and the use of sense relations as semantic anchoring points. Folk definitions help elucidate word meanings that are hard to capture, bring to light cultural background knowledge that often remains implicit, and take seriously the crucial involvement of native speaker consultants in linguistic fieldwork. They provide useful data for language documentation and are an essential element of any toolkit for linguistic and ethnographic field research

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Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork

Cited by 159 publications

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