I am conducting an informal survey on linguists’ (particularly fieldworkers’) experiences with human subjects approval. The survey is very short and is entirely anonymous.
Results will be posted here when the survey is completed.
I am conducting an informal survey on linguists’ (particularly fieldworkers’) experiences with human subjects approval. The survey is very short and is entirely anonymous.
Results will be posted here when the survey is completed.
Neal’s suggested Friday (Jan 8th) at 9pm in the hotel bar for the linguabloggers and those-friendly-to-linguabloggers for our … must be getting on for 5th! Annual Linguistics Bloggers “meeting”. Hope to see you all there.
I’ve updated the file of centroid coordinates for Australian languages (particularly Pama-Nyungan) for google earth. The file is available here. Please note the following:
This Mac visual dictionary looks like quite a useful thing for collecting vocabulary on fieldwork. (I haven’t downloaded it or tried it but will do so if it’s still around when I next teach field methods.)
I have no idea if this is legal, but pdf downloads.com seems to have a rather extensive collection on fieldwork materials.
Some time ago I published a somewhat postmodern analysis of Indiana Jones as fieldworker. Continuing in that vein, or next model for linguistic fieldwork comes from Stargate. Daniel Jackson is a fieldworker after my own heart. Not only is a detailed knowledge of historical linguistics vital to the success of his field research (“oh, it’s just a dialect related to Middle Egyptian”); he also illustrates the difficulties of monolingual field research and the possibilities of personal entanglements of a dubious ethical nature. He speaks a lot of languages, most of which are ultimately useless for the task which puts him in the most danger. He comes up with magical analyses from highly corrupted data, and he somehow doesn’t seem to notice that he’s working with a bunch of nutters. Finally, he is also keenly aware of local capacity building.
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