Ethical Issues In Linguistic Fieldwork: An Overview
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This article reviewed ethical models for fieldwork and outlined the responsibilities of linguists involved in fieldwork on endangered languages to individuals, communities, and knowledge systems, focusing on fieldwork in a North American context.Abstract:
Ethical issues in linguistic fieldwork have received surprisingly little direct attention in recent years. This article reviews ethical models for fieldwork and outlines the responsibilities of linguists involved in fieldwork on endangered languages to individuals, communities, and knowledge systems, focusing on fieldwork in a North American context.read more
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The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages: Endangered languages and economic development
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Sociolinguistic research with endangered varieties: The case of Louisiana French
TL;DR: The authors discusses the differences in goals, methods and results that variationist researchers may encounter when exploring and/or documenting a threatened language variety, and underscores special considerations and aspects of the research program that linguists must work to control for when working with endangered varieties of Western languages.
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Using Mixed Media Tools for Eliciting Discourse in Indigenous Languages.
Marion Caldecott,Karsten Koch +1 more
TL;DR: Traditional elicitation and text-gathering methods are compared with two non-traditional methodologies using non-verbal stimuli aimed at collecting spontaneous conversation (either unguided, or task-oriented), and partly scripted conversation (aided by multimedia tools).
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What l Didnt Know About Working in an Endangered Language Community: Some Fieldwork Issues
TL;DR: The authors describes problems and practices related to the inherent conflict between future-oriented linguistics as scientific research and past-oriented linguistic preservation, as relevant to fieldwork in endangered language communities.
The Linguist's Responsibilities to the Community of Speakers
TL;DR: In this article, the evolving nature of ethical responsibilities of linguists engaged in fieldwork to the communities of speakers with whom they work is discussed, focusing on developments in Canada in the past fifteen or twenty years.
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