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
Peter Austin,Julia Sallabank +1 more
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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From linguistic elicitation to eliciting the linguist: Lessons in community empowerment from Melanesia
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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What About Linguistic Diversity?: A Different Look at Multicultural Health Care
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