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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Not-so-strange bedfellows: Documentation, description, and sociolinguistics in Gaza
TL;DR: This article presented descriptive information on the Arabic dialect of Gaza City, based on recent sociolinguistic fieldwork conducted in the Gaza Strip with 39 speakers from the wider Gaza City community.
Endangered Language Research and the Moral Depravity of Ethics Protocols
TL;DR: The authors warn that most of the then new ethics protocols that were suddenly being drawn up, just as endangered language research came back into mainstream linguistic fashion in the 1990s, are not just misguided constructs dreamt up by do-gooder bureaucratic busybodies.
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The Right to Say Yes: Language Documentation in West Papua
TL;DR: There has been much discussion in the recent literature on language documentation about the ethical considerations faced by linguists conducting fieldwork on endangered languages as mentioned in this paper, and there has also been a discussion about the role of language documentation in language preservation.
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