The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork

Abstract

The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork offers a guide to linguistic fieldwork reflecting the collaborative nature of the field across the subfields of linguistics and disciplines such as astronomy, anthropology, biology, musicology, and ethnography. Experienced scholars and fieldworkers explain the methods and approaches needed to understand a language in its full cultural context and to document it accessibly and enduringly. Articles consider the application of new technological approaches to recording and documentation, but never lose sight of the crucial relationship between subject and researcher. The book is timely: an increased awareness of dying languages and vanishing dialects h..