Language is power: the impact of fieldwork on community politics

Title: Language is power: the impact of fieldwork on community politics
Creator: Hovdhaugen, Even; Næss, Åshild
Relation: Documenting endangered languages: achievements and perspectives p. 291-304
Relation: Trends in linguistics : studies and monographs 240
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110260021.291
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2011
Description: The ethical and political aspects of language documentation work have been brought increasingly to the forefront in recent literature. This is a vast and complex field, where no universally valid solutions can be offered, since both the nature of the issues and the appropriate way of resolving them will vary widely between communities and situations. In the words of Grinevald (2006: 351), 'the different agents involved create a maze of commitments of often conflicting nature, and...one of the major challenges of fieldwork is to juggle all these constraints, requirements, and commitments'.
Subject: linguistics; fieldwork; communities
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1057705
Identifier: uon:16241
Identifier: ISBN:9783110260021
Language: eng

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