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Ethical Issues In Linguistic Fieldwork: An Overview

Keren Rice
- 10 Jan 2007 - 
- Vol. 4, Iss: 1, pp 123-155
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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.
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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.

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The Cambridge handbook of endangered languages

TL;DR: The reasons behind this dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why it matters, and what can be done to document and support endangered languages are examined in this state-of-the-art Handbook of endangered languages.
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Language Death: Preface

David Crystal
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From linguistic elicitation to eliciting the linguist: Lessons in community empowerment from Melanesia

Lise M. Dobrin
- 01 Jan 2008 - 
TL;DR: As an outsider, I would feel very uncomfortable if I were to advocate to a speech community that it ought to try to keep its language alive as mentioned in this paper, as an outsider would find it difficult to advocate for the survival of an indigenous language.
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The handbook of sociolinguistics

Florian Coulmas
- 01 Jun 1998 - 
TL;DR: The evolution of a sociolinguistic theory of language: R.B. Le Page as discussed by the authors The Demography of Language: Albert F. Verdoot (Universite Catholique de Louvain).
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Endangered languages: Western language ideologies and small-language prospects

TL;DR: The phenomenon of ancestral-language abandonment is worth looking at, precisely because a good many people, especially those who speak unthreatened languages, are likely to have trouble imagining that they themselves could ever be brought to the point of giving up on their own ancestral language and encouraging their children to use some other language instead as mentioned in this paper.
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Language Death: Preface

David Crystal
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What About Linguistic Diversity?: A Different Look at Multicultural Health Care

TL;DR: The issue of linguistic diversity in health care is explored, with a particular focus on interpreter-mediated interactions, involving patients and health professionals with limited English proficiency.