Word Hunters: Field Linguists on Fieldwork
Eleven distinguished linguists reflect on their career-spanning linguistic fieldwork. Over decades, each has repeatedly stood up to physical, intellectual, interpersonal, intercultural, and sometimes political challenges in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. These scholar-explorers have enlightene...
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ftunivwestsyd:oai:researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au:uws_51431 2023-05-15T15:01:15+02:00 Word Hunters: Field Linguists on Fieldwork Sarvasy, Hannah (R19492) Forker, Diana The MARCS Institute (Host institution) 2018 print 185 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uwsau/detail.action?docID=5267565 http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:51431 eng eng Netherlands, John Benjamins Publishing XXXXXX - Unknown linguistics fieldwork book 2018 ftunivwestsyd 2020-12-05T18:23:52Z Eleven distinguished linguists reflect on their career-spanning linguistic fieldwork. Over decades, each has repeatedly stood up to physical, intellectual, interpersonal, intercultural, and sometimes political challenges in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. These scholar-explorers have enlightened the world to the inner workings of languages in remote communities of Africa (West, East, and South), Amazonia, the Arctic, Australia, the Caucasus, Oceania, Siberia, and East Asia. They report some linguistic eureka moments, but also discuss cultural missteps, illness, and the other challenges of pursuing linguistic data in extreme circumstances. They write passionately about language death and their responsibilities to speech communities. The stories included here--the stuff of departmental and family legends--are published publicly for the first time. Book Arctic Siberia University of Western Sydney (UWS): Research Direct Arctic Eureka ENVELOPE(-85.940,-85.940,79.990,79.990) |
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Eleven distinguished linguists reflect on their career-spanning linguistic fieldwork. Over decades, each has repeatedly stood up to physical, intellectual, interpersonal, intercultural, and sometimes political challenges in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. These scholar-explorers have enlightened the world to the inner workings of languages in remote communities of Africa (West, East, and South), Amazonia, the Arctic, Australia, the Caucasus, Oceania, Siberia, and East Asia. They report some linguistic eureka moments, but also discuss cultural missteps, illness, and the other challenges of pursuing linguistic data in extreme circumstances. They write passionately about language death and their responsibilities to speech communities. The stories included here--the stuff of departmental and family legends--are published publicly for the first time. |
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