Titlebook: Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork; Shobhana L. Chelliah,Willem J. Reuse Book 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 ant

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Fieldwork Ethics: The Rights and Responsibilities of the Fieldworker,ttend both to a respectful and reciprocal relationship with the language community and produce documentation meeting the standards of the academic community and the funding agency.” In this chapter, we review what has been reported in the literature regarding the challenges of meeting these many demands.

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Lexicography in Fieldwork,described, we need a grammar, a collection of texts, and a dictionary (Evans and Dench 2006:10, 12; Dixon 2007). These three components would typically be compiled from fieldworkers’ notes, wordlists, grammatical elicitations, and texts.

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Definition and Goals of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork,d through interaction with native-speaking consultants. Many other definitions emphasize the notion that the fieldworker must live like and with the native speakers of the language to be studied. For example, Everett (2001:168) defines linguistic fieldwork as:…the activity of a researcher systematic

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The History of Linguistic Fieldwork,istory of ethnography, the history of European colonization, and the history of Christian missions. Such a study, which could be conceived as a history of human curiosity about other languages, still needs to be written. In this chapter, we will focus on the history of fieldwork insofar as it is rel

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Choosing a Language,guage may well be out of the hands of the researcher. The language ultimately chosen for fieldwork may be suggested by an advisor or senior linguist (Section 4.1) or, due to special circumstances, a language community might request a researcher to conduct fieldwork on their language (Section 4.2). T

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Field Preparation: Philological, Practical, and Psychological,dition to general typological study (see Chapter 11), a fieldworker must read materials specific to the language and culture being investigated. Second, a fieldworker must know what to expect from the field situation and must consider how his or her individual personality will respond to and engage

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Fieldwork Ethics: The Rights and Responsibilities of the Fieldworker,eing studied. As Dwyer (2006:50) puts it, “The ethical requirements of fieldwork-based investigation are complex, as they demand that the researcher attend both to a respectful and reciprocal relationship with the language community and produce documentation meeting the standards of the academic com