Teaching linguistic fieldwork and sustainability
Date: 4 December, 2009
Location: The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Event type: Seminar
An event for both experienced and novice lecturers and students of Field Linguistics. An event to introduce them to knowledge and skills from a wide range of areas in linguistic theory and practice, and to learn about “real world” language problems and solutions.
A workshop jointly organised by the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies and the Department of Linguistics, SOAS.
The workshop is aimed at students interested in learning more about fieldwork, and staff who are considering how fieldwork might fit into the linguistics curriculum. There will be two strands – one for beginners who are interested but have no experience of fieldwork, and one for advanced who have some fieldwork experience or have participated in a fieldmethods course. For beginners, we will cover a range of fieldwork types, including language documentation and urban sociolinguistic fieldwork. For the advanced group topics will include language and culture documentation, sustainable documentation methods and phonetic fieldwork.
Presentations will be given by staff and post-graduate students from SOAS, Manchester University, Queen Mary University and Edinburgh University.
Fees
- There is no charge to attend this event for employees and postgraduate students of publicly funded UK higher educational institutions and other institutions with a subscription to the Higher Education Academy.
- There is a charge of £40 for employees and postgraduate students of private institutions/organisations and non-UK institutions to attend this event.
- Please note that we reserve the right to charge a £50 cancellation fee if you do not notify us at least 48 hours beforehand that you are unable to attend.
- Full details of our charging policy are available.
Travel bursary
A travel bursary is available for this event. Deadline for applications is the 20 November, 2009.
| Time | Section 1 (beginners) | Section 2 (advanced) |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30-10:00 | Registration/coffee | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Why and how linguists do and teach fieldwork Peter Austin, SOAS |
Documenting culture in the field Friederike Luepke, SOAS |
| 11:00-11:30 | Tea/coffee | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Remote location fieldwork Oliver Bond, SOAS |
Fieldwork and sustainable data David Nathan, SOAS |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch and equipment demonstration | |
| 14:00-15.00 | Sociolinguistic fieldwork Sue Fox, QMU |
Phonetic fieldwork Bert Remijsen, Edinburgh  Presentation(Word File, 3.61Mb) View paper on website under teaching www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~bert |
| 15:00-16:00 | Revitalisation and language sustainability Julia Sallabank and Jennifer Marshall, SOAS |
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| 16:00-16:15 | Tea/coffee | |
| 16:15-16:45 | Final wrap-up and discussion | |
