Reimagining the current praxis of field linguistics training: Decolonial considerations

Language ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. e293-e319
Author(s):  
Adrienne Tsikewa
Keyword(s):  
Field Linguistics

scholarly journals Field Linguistics: A Guide to Linguistic Field Work.

Man ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 491
Author(s):  
Anna K. Bennett ◽  
William J. Samarin
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
Field Linguistics

scholarly journals Phraseological units as means of expressing the emotivity in the Tatar language

2021 ◽  
pp. 154-161
Author(s):  
Gulshat Raisovna Galiullina ◽  
Gulfiya Kamilovna Khadieva ◽  
Zilya Mullakhmetovna Mukhametgalieva ◽  
Margarita Emilievna Dubrovina
Keyword(s):  
Emotional State ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Scientific Field ◽  
Wilhelm Von Humboldt ◽  
Emotional Environment ◽  
Field Linguistics ◽  
Inner World ◽  
The Given ◽  
Negative Connotation

Systematization and description of the arsenal of linguistic means of expressing emotions represent one of the major tasks for linguistics that returns nowadays to the theory of Wilhelm von Humboldt, which in the early XIXth century appealed to study the language in close connection with individual speakers. A logical interest of the researchers to the processes of manifestation of emotions in the language has resulted in the formation of a new scientific field – linguistics of emotions aimed at the emotional environment of the language. In the Tatar language human emotions are verbalized mostly by the phraseological units representing various mental states of a person, one’s inner world. Studying means of expressing emotive vocabulary illustrated by the phraseological units provides an opportunity to present the whole complex of means of the language and the speech, as well as contribute to understanding the mentality and psychology of a Tatar language person. This article covers the Tatar phraseological units expressing negative connotation. The theme group “anger” represents the object of research. The authors have studied the emotional and appraisal semantics of the given group of phraseological units and attempted the revealing the specificity of the way of thinking and the worldview of the Tatar people. The analysis revealed that the phraseological units of the studied group are characterized by a great diversity of lexical, semantic, emotional and appraisal aspects. The emotional and appraisal volume of the phraseological units varies depending on the emotional state of the speaker and on his attitude to the addressee. Cultural and connotative semantics of the phraseological units is closely connected to the Tatar people’s worldview which has formed and has been enriched throughout the life experience.

Field Linguistics

2008 ◽  
pp. 130-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Munro
Keyword(s):  
Field Linguistics

Synthesis as feedback in field linguistics

1981 ◽  
Vol 69 (S1) ◽  
pp. S15-S15
Author(s):  
Joseph E. Grimes
Keyword(s):  
Field Linguistics

Field linguistics meets biology: how to obtain scientific designations for plant and animal names

2007 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Fleck
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
Vernacular Names ◽  
Field Linguistics ◽  
Contact Language ◽  
Animal Names ◽  
Indigenous Society

Abstract This paper proposes methodology and provides practical tips for associating plant and animal names of little-known languages with scientific designations, especially for the purpose of producing accurate dictionary entries. The focus is on how a linguist can accomplish this task with or without the assistance of biologists, while avoiding the unsound practice of relying solely on vernacular names in the contact language. The points presented here are illustrated with examples from Matses, a language in the Panoan family spoken by an indigenous society living in western Amazonia, with whom the author has conducted extensive zoological, ethnobiological and linguistic field research.

scholarly journals Construction with adverbial participle clauses in the Kadar language

Litera ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 74-83
Author(s):  
Rasul Osmanovich Mutalov ◽  
Marina Suleimanovna Bagamaeva
Keyword(s):  
Key Factors ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Subordinate Clauses ◽  
Demonstrative Pronoun ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Field Linguistics ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Compound Sentence

This article is dedicated to examination of polypredicative constructions formed by means of adverbial participle clause in one of the non-written languages of Dargin group – the Kadar language. The goal of this work is to describe the preterite adverbial participles used in formation of circumstantial subordinate clauses, study the problems of co-reference, and establish the key factors that affect the reduction of the co-referential element or its substitution with demonstrative pronoun. Main attention is turned to determination of grammatically correct constructions with adverbial participle clauses with co-referential element. The article employs the methods of synchronic description and field linguistics. The research material was accumulated during the 2019 expedition to Kadar rural localities of Karamakhi and Chankurbe of Buynaksky District of the Republic of Dagestan. The novelty consists in the fact that this work is first to examine the problems of co-reference in constructions with adverbial participle clauses, identification of factors that affect the reduction or substitution of co-referential element,  as well as determination of all grammatically correct sentences with adverbial participle clause that function in polypredicative constructions of the Kadar language. For solution of this problem, the author created the tables that considered the semantic role of predicate actants of superordinate and subordinate parts, position of subordinate part in relation to superordinate part, and the proximity of subordinate part to co-referential element in superordinate part in the compound sentence. As a result, the author establishes the positions with most and least grammatically correct constructions. The presented materials can be used in studying this type of compound sentences in other Dargin and Dagestanian languages.

scholarly journals For what reason does Raskolnikov laugh?

Litera ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 89-97
Author(s):  
Tszinyan Ma
Keyword(s):  
Computer Software ◽  
Semantic Space ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Semantic Fields ◽  
Field Linguistics ◽  
The Subject

This article analyzes the resources of application of computer technologies for the purpose of visualization of the text semantic field “laughter”. The concept of “laughter” holds a special place in the works of F. M. Dostoevsky, as well as in one of the central semantic fields in the text semantic space of the novel “Crime and Punishment”. Examination of the semantic field within the space of a particular literary text allows determining the peculiarities of the authorial thesaurus within the structure of his linguistic identity. The subject of this article is the concept of “laughter” as the core of the corresponding text semantic field; determination of saturation of the text with the words belonging to a certain semantic field. Despite the fact that multiple questions related to the theory of semantic field are well studied, the scholars take interests in studying the linguistic material, denoted in field linguistics, namely development of the techniques for visualization of the semantic  network through creating cloud tags, semantic text markup, synoptic patterns, rendering, etc. The article offers one of the techniques – visualization based on construction of a plot using a specifically developed computer software. The graphic image illustrates the distribution of units of the semantic field “laughter” in the novel, which enables new interpretations of the content of Dostoevsky’s novel.

Review: Field Linguistics: A Guide to Linguistic Field Work

1968 ◽  
Vol os-15 (5) ◽  
pp. 238-240
Author(s):  
Jacob A. Loewen
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
Field Linguistics

Accomplished works and facts

2020 ◽  
pp. 129-149
Author(s):  
Anne Storch
Keyword(s):  
Research Process ◽  
Endangered Languages ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
User Community ◽  
Field Linguistics ◽  
Similarities And Differences

There are different traditions that focus on ‘capturing’ endangered languages such as field linguistics and documentary linguistics. They position themselves somewhat differently to the language or practices they aim to represent, their user community(/ies), and the nature of the enterprise. Focusing on aspects such as research goals, methods, outcomes, and agents, this chapter examines the similarities and differences between these traditions to uncover their ideological underpinnings based on an assessment of (classic) training manuals or guides. Despite critical voices and changes in these traditions, both remain preoccupied with amassing data to feed Northern scientific activities, notions such as objectivity, representativeness, replicability, and, among other things, asymmetries between speakers’ and researchers’ interests are not resolved. Change has not fundamentally transformed the research paradigm on endangered languages, freeing it from its colonial origins, because there is a reluctance among linguists to embrace reflexivity as part of their research process.

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