Linguistics and oral history : towards an interdisciplinary approach / edited by Chris Fitzgerald

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fitzgerald, Chris, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and history.

Oral history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

Brings together oral historians and linguists from around the world to explore the complimentary nature of these two disciplines.

Contents:

List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction, Chris Fitzgerald (Mary Immaculate College, Ireland) 1. The Role of Memory and Language in Oral Histories, Natalie Braber (Nottingham Trent University, UK) 2. In and Out of Context: Oral History as Data, Mary Larson (Oklahoma State University, USA) 3. The Collector as A Linguist: Interpreting Transcription Practices of Irish English Oral Ethnographies, Gili Diamant (Cardiff University, UK) 4. Oral History and the Limits of Interpretation, Steven High (Concordia University, Canada) 5. Analyzing for Resistance in Talk and Text: Challenges and Opportunities for Critical Discourse Analysts and Oral Historians, Elizabeth Kiely (University College Cork, Ireland) 6. Oral History with Second Language Narrators, Carol McKirdy (TAFE, Sydney, Australia) 7. Crossroads: Where Oral History, English Language Teaching, and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies Intersect, Mary Romney-Schaab (Capital Community College, Connecticut, USA) 8. 'Linguistics Hadn't Been Invented': Oral Histories of Speech Therapy in the Twentieth Century, Jois Stansfield (Scottish Oral History Centre, UK) 9. Combining Oral History and Linguistics to Explore Public Art and Cultural Memory, Sarah O'Brien (Mary Immaculate College, Ireland) and Chris Fitzgerald (Mary Immaculate College, Ireland) 10. The Regional Dialects Diachronic (REDD) Corpus Project: Using Archives for Dialectology Research, Sarah Kirk-Browne (The British Library, UK) 11. The Freiburg Corpus of English Dialects (FRED): Challenges and Affordances of a Corpus of Oral Histories, Nuria Hernández (Duisburg Essen University, Germany) and Susanne Wagner (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany) 12. Keywords in Discourse: Unlocking the Meaning Attributed to Historical Events around the French Libération (1944) in Interviews with Time Witnesses in Later Life, Annette Gerstenberg (Potsdam University, Germany) Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-350-45824-4

1-350-45826-0

1-350-45825-2

OCLC:

1520505891