Field Notes

Today's episode is part two of our Q&A episode with Vera Ferreira (CIDLeS & ELDP) & Hugo Cardoso (University of Lisbon). In this episode, we discuss questions from listeners such as "How can fieldworkers deal with the often tragic and uncomfortable circumstances in the field?", "How can we reduce our environmental impact in the field?" and "How to deal with difficult recording situations". Just a reminder, the responses to these questions are based on our own experiences in the field and do not necessarily reflect best practice (i.e., your mileage may vary). 

Things mentioned in this episode: 

Hugo's equipment: Marantz audio recorder,  Zoom H6, Panasonic HC-VX98 video cameras, Sennheiser lapel microphone (wireless), Rode NT2-A microphone, Rode NTG2 (shotgun mic), Rode NT microphone

Zoom Q8 video camera & Sony FDR-AX53 4K Ultra HD (Vera's recommendation) 

Clean Tabs for water purification 

Thank you to our listeners who sent in questions, if you have a question about linguistic fieldwork, you can email it to [email protected]

If you would like to hear more about Vera's fieldwork with the Fala (Spain), Minderico (Portugal) and Bavarian (Germany) communities, you can listen to Field Notes episode two. If you would like to learn more about Hugo's work with the Diu and Kerala communities (India) and the Portuguese Burgher community (Eastern Sri Lanka), you can listen to episode four. 

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Today's episode is with Vera Ferreira (CIDLeS & ELDP) & Hugo Cardoso (University of Lisbon). In this episode, Martha, Hugo & Vera discuss questions sent in from listeners. Questions include "How can collected data be shared in a meaningful way with communities" and "What do researchers prioritise during their documentation projects?".

If you would like to hear more about Vera's fieldwork with the Fala (Spain), Minderico (Portugal) and Bavarian (Germany) communities, you can listen to Field Notes episode two. If you would like to learn more about Hugo's work with the Diu and Kerala communities (India) and the Portuguese Burgher community (Eastern Sri Lanka), you can listen to episode four.

Get in touch: 

Website: https://fieldnotespod.com

Email: [email protected]

Twitter & Instagram: @lingfieldnotes

This episode is with Lauren Gawne who does fieldwork in Nepal working with speakers of Yolmo and Syuba. Lauren has experience as both a successful grant applicant and as a grant committee assessor. In this episode, she shares her advice for navigating applying for funding in the current overly-competitive and under-resourced environment. 

Things mentioned in this episode:

Lauren's website

Lingthusiasm: a podcast enthusiastic about linguistics, hosted by Lauren Gawne & Gretchen McCulloch

Lauren's blog: Superlinguo

Short films by Chouette Films from Lauren’s Syuba video recordings: Bees & Earthquakes

Endangered Languages Documentation Programme

Firebird Foundation

The Awesome Foundation

The Linguist List

A Guide to the Syuba (Kagate) Language Documentation Corpus (Language Documentation & Conservation)

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Website: https://fieldnotespod.com

Email: [email protected]

Twitter & Instagram: @lingfieldnotes

This episode is with Andrew Harvey, who is a documentary linguist working with speakers of two previously un-documented languages, Ihanzu and Gorwaa (Tanzania). Andrew discusses his research, the seredipitous beginning to his work with the Gorwaa community, and how community collaboration has impacted the documentation and description of Ihanzu and Gorwaa. 

Things mentioned in this episode:

Andrew’s Gorwaa deposit at ELAR: The Gorwaa Noun Phrase: Toward a Description of the Gorwaa Language

Andrew’s website

Andrew on twitter:@andrewdtharvey

Andrew’s email: [email protected]

Ihanzu

Gorwaa

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This episode is with insider researcher Madoka Hammine, who is a PhD student at University of Lapland in Finland. Madoka works on her heritage language, Yaeyama (Ryukyuan), as both a linguist and a language activist. Her PhD project is entitled: "embracing multilingualism in education", based on her fieldwork in both in Finland and Miyara village (Ishigaki, Japan).

Things mentioned in this episode: 

Madoka’s work (paper mentioned TBA): https://ulapland.academia.edu/MadokaHammine

Madoka’s profile at the University of Lapland

Madoka's podcast: おーりたぼーり ("Ooritaboori", content in Yaeyama, Japanese & English)

Yaeyama language: Wikipedia 

Sami languages: Wikipedia

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This episode is with Khairunnisa, who is researching variation and politeness strategies in her own language, Sasak (Lombok, Indonesia). In this episode, Khairunnisa discusses how working as an insider researcher influences her research methods, and how she manages the challenges of adhering to expected societal norms in her own community. 

Things mentioned in this episode: 

• Sasak on Wikipedia 

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In this episode, Hugo Cardoso discusses his work with the creole-speaking communities of Diu and Kerala and the Portuguese Burgher community (Eastern Sri Lanka). 

Things mentioned in this episode:

Hugo's profile on the University of Lisbon website: http://www.clul.ulisboa.pt/en/researchers-en/39-cardoso-hugo

Hugo's ELAR deposit: Documentation of Sri Lanka Portuguese

Hugo's equipment: Marantz audio recorder,  Zoom H6, Panasonic HC-VX98 video cameras, Sennheiser lapel microphone (wireless), Rode NT2-A microphone, Rode NTG2 (shotgun mic), Rode NT microphone

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Website: https://fieldnotespod.com

Email: [email protected]

Twitter & Instagram: @lingfieldnotes

In this episode, Lyle Campbell shares stories from his work in the Americas, discusses what has changed in the field of Documentary Linguistics since he started his career, and gives some food-related advice to new field workers. 

Things mentioned in this episode: 

Endangered Languages Project: http://www.endangeredlanguages.com

Catalogue of Endangered Languages: http://ling.hawaii.edu/research-current/projects/elcat/

Lyle Campbell’s website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~lylecamp/

Quechuan language family: Wikipedia 

Mayan language family: Wikipedia

Xinca language: Wikipedia & OLAC

Documentary and Descriptive Linguistics by Nikolaus Himmelmann (1998)

Boasian anthropology

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Vera Ferreira discusses her fieldwork in Europe working with the Minderico (Portugal), Fala (Spain), and Bavarian (Germany) communities. 

Things mentioned in this episode: 

CIDLeS: http://www.cidles.eu

Fala language on Wikipedia 

Bavarian language on Wikipedia 

Minderico language on Wikipedia 

Get in touch: 

Website: https://fieldnotespod.com

Email: [email protected]

Twitter & Instagram: @lingfieldnotes

Get in touch: 

Website: https://fieldnotespod.com

Email: [email protected]

Twitter and Instagram: @lingfieldnotes

Welcome to Field Notes! This podcast aims to share the stories of linguists doing fieldwork to document, describe, and research languages (especially endangered/minority languages). In Season One, we will be interviewing several field linguists about their work and how they would advise new fieldworkers and students thinking about getting into field linguistics.

Things mentioned in this episode:

UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Amami language on Wikipedia 

Ryukyuan language family on Wikipedia 

Get in touch: 

Website: https://fieldnotespod.com

Email: [email protected]

Twitter and Instagram: @lingfieldnotes