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Author(s): Natalie Schilling
ISBN(s): 9780521762922, 0521762928
Edition: 1st
File Details: PDF, 2.80 MB
Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0521762928 
ISBN 13: 9780521762922
Author: Natalie Schilling

Looking for an easy-to-use, practical guide to conducting fieldwork in sociolinguistics? This invaluable textbook will give you the skills and knowledge required for carrying out research projects in ‘the field’, including: • How to select and enter a community • How to design a research sample • What recording equipment to choose and how to operate it • How to collect, store and manage data • How to interact effectively with participants and communities • What ethical issues you should be aware of. Carefully designed to be of maximum practical use to students and researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and related fields, the book is packed with useful features, including: • Helpful checklists for recording techniques and equipment specifications • Practical examples taken from classic sociolinguistic studies • Vivid passages in which students recount their own experiences of doing fieldwork in many different parts of the world

Sociolinguistic Fieldwork 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction
1.1 Foregrounding field methods
1.2 Sociolinguistic field methods: A brief history and overview
1.3 Enriching quantitative sociolinguistics with qualitative data / methods
1.4 How this book is organized

2 Designing the study
2.1 Selecting the population: What is a “speech community”?
2.2 Sampling the population
2.3 Stratifying the sample
2.4 Investigating language change in real time
2.5 Summary

3 Data-collection methods
3.1 Sociolinguistic surveys
3.2 The sociolinguistic interview
3.3 Ethnography / participant-observation
3.4 Summary: Combining methods and embracing the observer’s paradox

4 Designing research on style
4.1 Researching style as attention to speech
4.2 Researching style as audience design
4.3 Current approaches to stylistic variation
4.4 Summary

5 In the field: Finding contacts, finding a place
5.1 Initial contacts
5.2 Finding participants
5.3 The role of the fieldworker
5.4 Summary

6 Recording and record-keeping
6.1 Recording equipment and techniques
6.2 Record-keeping and data management
6.3 Preserving confidentiality
6.4 Summary

7 Giving back to the community
7.1 Operationalizing advocacy: Labov’s principles for community involvement and their implementation
7.2 From advocacy to empowerment: Wolfram’s Principle of Linguistic Gratuity and its implementation in informal education
7.3 Passing the torch: Students giving back
7.4 Summary

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