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Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork offers a diverse and practical introduction to research methods used in field linguistics. Designed to teach students how to collect quality linguistic data in an ethical and responsible manner, the key features include:A focus on fieldwork in countries and continents that have undergone colonial expansion, including Australia, the United States of America, Canada, South America and Africa;A description of specialist methods used to conduct research on phonological, grammatical and lexical description, but also including methods for research on gesture and sign, language acquisition, language contact and the verbal arts;Examples of resources that have resulted from collaborations with language communities and which both advance linguistic understanding and support language revitalization work;Annotated guidance on sources for further reading.This book is essential reading for students studying modules relating to linguistic fieldwork or those looking to embark upon field research.

Linguistics --- Anthropological linguistics. --- Fieldwork. --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages

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Typological hierarchies are widely perceived as one of the most important results of research on language universals and linguistic diversity. Explanations for typological hierarchies, however, are usually based on the synchronic properties of the patterns described by individual hierarchies, not the actual diachronic processes that give rise to these patterns cross-linguistically. This book aims to explore in what ways the investigation of such processes can further our understanding of typological hierarchies. To this end, diachronic evidence about the origins of several phenomena described by typological hierarchies is discussed for several languages by a number of leading scholars in typology, historical linguistics, and language documentation. This evidence suggests a rethinking of possible explanations for typological hierarchies, as well as the very notion of typological universals in general. For this reason, the book will be of interest not only to the broad typological community, but also historical linguists, cognitive linguists, and psycholinguists.

Typology (Linguistics) --- Historical linguistics. --- Linguistic universals. --- Anthropological linguistics. --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Language and languages --- Universals (Linguistics) --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and history --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistic typology --- Linguistic universals --- Universals --- History --- Typology --- Classification --- Historical linguistics --- Anthropological linguistics --- E-books

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This volume illustrates how language revival movements in Russia and elsewhere have often followed a specific pattern of literacy bias in the promotion of a minority's heritage language, partly neglecting the social and relational aspects of orality. Using the Vepsian Renaissance as an example, this volume brings to the surface a literacy-orality dualism new to the discussion around revival movements. In addition to the more-theoretically oriented scopes, this book addresses all the actors involved in revival movements including activists, scholars and policy-makers, and opens a discussion on literacy and orality, and power and agency in the multiple relational aspects of written and oral practices. This study addresses issues common to language revival movements worldwide and will appeal to researchers of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, education and language policy, and culture studies.

Linguistic minorities --- Anthropological linguistics --- Sociolinguistics --- Heritage language speakers --- Heritage language learners --- Heritage speakers --- Persons --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Minority languages --- Minorities --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Political aspects --- Russia (Federation) --- Languages. --- Minoritized languages

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This book applies phenomenological methodology to examine the transformations of messages as they pass from the world of the mind to the linear world of human speech, and then back again. Rapid development of linguistic science in the second half of the 20th century and cognitive science in the beginning of the 21st century has brought us through various stages of natural human language analysis and comprehension – from deep structures, transformational grammar and behaviorism to cognitive linguistics, theory of encapsulation, and mentalism. Thus drawing upon new developments in cognitive science, philosophy and hermeneutics, the author reveals how to observe the real meaning lurking behind the spoken word and as a result, how to act more rationally. Applying methodology introduced by Edmund Husserl and developed by Martin Heidegger, the author examines how to see the ‘living’ and dynamic essence of speech hidden in the world of linear linguistic strings and casual utterances. This uniquely researched work will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of cognitive stylistic, pragmatics and the psychology of speech. .

Speech --- Philosophy. --- Talking --- Language and languages --- Oral communication --- Phonetics --- Voice --- Psycholinguistics. --- Phonology. --- Cognitive grammar. --- Linguistics --- Linguistic anthropology. --- Language and languages-Style. --- Phonology and Phonetics. --- Cognitive Linguistics. --- Philosophy of Language. --- Linguistic Anthropology. --- Stylistics. --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Cognitive linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Psycholinguistics --- Language, Psychology of --- Psychology of language --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Psychological aspects --- Language and languages—Philosophy. --- Language and languages—Style. --- Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology --- Phonology

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This book analyses the emotional message of Hungarian folksongs from a Cultural Linguistic perspective, employing a wide range of empirical devices. It combines theoretical notions with analytical devices and has a multidisciplinary essence: it relies on the latest Cultural Linguistic findings, employing spatial semantics, cognitive linguistics, cognitive psychology and ethnography.  The book addresses key questions including: How is nature conceptualized by a folk cultural group? How are emotions and other mental states expressed via nature imagery with respect to metaphors and construal schemas? The author argues that folksongs reflect the Hungarian peasant communities’ specific treatment of emotions, captured in an underlying cultural schema ‘reservedness.’ This schema is grounded in principals of morality and tradition, and governs the various levels of representation. The main topics discussed are related to two core issues: cultural metaphors and cultural sche mas of construal in folksongs. It provides a detailed example, based on over 1000 folksongs, of how a cultural group’s cognition can be analyzed and better understood through a representative corpus-based linguistic approach. The research is also pioneering in constructing a comprehensive analysis framework adapted to folk poetry, and offers an example of how cultural conceptualizations can be investigated in various discourse types. Last but not least, the book offers insights into the work of Hungarian linguists and folklorists concerning cultural conceptualizations, which have largely been unavailable in English.

Hungarian language --- Folk songs, Hungarian. --- Comparative linguistics. --- Comparative philology --- Philology, Comparative --- Historical linguistics --- Social aspects. --- Hungarian ballads and songs --- Hungarian folk songs --- Magyar language --- Finno-Ugric languages --- Linguistics. --- Cognitive grammar. --- Linguistic anthropology. --- Comparative Linguistics. --- Historical Linguistics. --- Language and Literature. --- Cognitive Linguistics. --- Linguistic Anthropology. --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Cognitive linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Psycholinguistics --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Historical linguistics. --- Philology. --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and history --- History