Word hunters : field linguists on fieldwork / edited by Hannah Sarvasy, Diana Forker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarvasy, Hannah S., editor.

Forker, Diana, editor.

Series:

Studies in language companion series (SLCS) ; Volume 194.

Studies in Language Companion, 0165-7763 ; Volume 194

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--Fieldwork.

Linguistics.

Linguistics--Methodology.

Anthropological linguistics.

Historical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018.

Summary:

In Word Hunters, 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.

Contents:

Intro

Word Hunters

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

1. Word hunters

Sarvasy

Forker

References

2. The magic of names

1. The Amazonian names

1.1 The Tariana of the Vaupés River Basin

1.2 The naming systems

2. The Manambu of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea

2.1 A multitude of names

2.2 The Manambu clans and naming system

2.3 The totems, and the terms of address

3. New language, new name

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

3. Historical linguistics in the raw

1. Introduction

2. Sarawak

3. Manus

4. Taiwan

5. Fieldwork 'at home'

6. Conclusion

4. Sharing thoughts, concepts and experiences

2. Languages of former hunter-gatherers in Southern Africa

3. Arrival at the African continent

4. Plants and their use in East Africa

5. Languages spoken on islands in lakes of Ethiopia

6. A Nǀuu reader for the ǂKhomani community

7. A Luruuli-Lunyala dictionary project in Central Uganda

8. Contextualizing "fieldwork" on African languages

5. Forty-plus years before the mast

2. Clueless in Africa

Language learning

Mr. Wade's farm, in search of the pygmy hippopotamus

South Africa: The good, the bad, and the serendipitous

3. Lessons from health crises

Final words

6. Field linguistics in Daghestan

2. Field research as family business

3. Field research with students

4. Field research in a multilingual landscape

5. Conclusion

Acknowledgment

7. Drinking of the iceberg

8. Reflections on linguistic fieldwork between Sahel, Amazon and Outback

2. Getting into fieldwork

3. Travel and arrival

4. Life in the field - basic survival.

5. Working with people

6. Ethical considerations

9. My fieldwork, from Georgia to Guinea

1. A few words on "Kibrik's field trips"

2. My field trips

2.1 Svaneti: Imprinting

2.2 Daghestan: "Perestroika"

2.3 Adyghea: Complexity and responsibility

2.4 Far East: Language shift

2.5 Daghestan again: Ideal place for fieldwork

2.6 West Africa: Creating a pidgin

3. Why field linguistics?

10. The linguist as a demon and as a human

2. The linguist as an 'after-death demon'

Dyadic relations

Fieldwork and witchcraft

Cannibalism and unwelcome publicity

3. Dyads with a Dutchman

Fieldwork extending over many years

4. Final remarks

Abbreviation

11. From here to there and back again

1. An overview

2. How did I get into this?

3. Yánesha' fieldwork (1953-1964)

Drowning and going downriver

You and I

Should it be -a, -e, or -o?

"If we forget to say one, we say the other"

Were you ever afraid?

Secrets of language learning

When cousins turn their backs to each other

How do you write -rra?

4. Nomatsigenga fieldwork

Aha!

Literary criticism or discourse grammar?

5. Comparing notes

6. Language contact

7. Recycled

Would I do it again?

Subject index

Language index

Name index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.