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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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What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and spaces? Following the model of Raymond Williams's classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (1976), Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility analyses a selection of terms that were central to the conceptualisation of identity, race, migration, and transculturality in the early modern period. In many cases, the concepts, preconceptions, and debates that they embody - or sometimes subsume - came to play formative roles in the articulation of identity, rights, and power in subsequent periods. Together, the essays in this volume provide an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the development of issues of identity, belonging, and human mobility.

English language --- Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Race --- Migration, Internal --- Anthropological linguistics. --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Internal migration --- Mobility --- Population geography --- Internal migrants --- Physical anthropology --- Identity --- Philosophy --- Comparison (Philosophy) --- Resemblance (Philosophy) --- Culture, terminology, early modern, race, migration, identity. --- Germanic languages

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Developments in cognitive science indicate that human and nonhuman primates share a range of behavioral and physiological characteristics that speak to the issue of language origins. This volume has three major themes, woven throughout the chapters. First, it is argued that scientists in animal behavior and anthropology need to move beyond theoretical debate to a more empirically focused and comparative approach to language. Second, those empirical and comparative methods are described, revealing underpinnings of language, some of which are shared by humans and other primates and others of which are unique to humans. New insights are discussed, and several hypotheses emerge concerning the evolutionary forces that led to the "design" of language. Third, evolutionary challenges that led to adaptive changes in communication over time are considered with an eye toward understanding various constraints that channeled the process.

Language and languages --- Human evolution. --- Anthropological linguistics. --- Animal communication. --- Primates --- Origin. --- Behavior. --- Life sciences. --- Neurosciences. --- Zoology. --- Psychology. --- Life Sciences. --- Psychology, general. --- Behavioral sciences --- Mental philosophy --- Mind --- Science, Mental --- Human biology --- Philosophy --- Soul --- Mental health --- Biology --- Natural history --- Animals --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Animal biocommunication --- Animal language --- Biocommunication, Animal --- Language learning by animals --- Animal behavior --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Origin of languages --- Speech --- Origin --- Philosophy (General).