Felicity Meakins, Jennifer Green, Myfany Turpin

Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork offers a diverse and practical introduction to research methods used in field linguistics. This book is essential reading for students studying modules relating to linguistic fieldwork or those looking to embark upon field research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780415786133
• ISBN-10: 0415786134
• Artikelnr.: 51960938

Autorenporträt

Felicity Meakins is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland. She specialises in the documentation of Australian languages in the Victoria River District in northern Australia and the effect of English on Indigenous languages. Jennifer Green is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her main research interests are descriptive linguistics, lexicography, multimodality in narrative practices and sign language. Myfany Turpin is a Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. Her research is in descriptive linguistics, poetry, song, ethnobiology and language revitalization.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Planning for fieldwork
3. Equipment and recording
4. Data management, annotation and archiving
5. Phonetics and Phonology
6. Morpho-syntax
7. Semantic fieldwork and lexicography
8. Sign and gesture
9. Child language acquisition
10. Contact Languages
11. Verbal art
12. A final word
Appendices
Map of major languages referred to in this book
Answers to Exercises
Glossary and Abbreviations
Index