Overview
- Offers an inventive multidisciplinary approach to studying minority languages
- Contains unique and innovative techniques for data elicitation
- Demonstrates how gaining knowledge from speakers provides vital linguistic context
- Proposes a methodology to studying languages within an internal diaspora
- Essential text for language activists documenting mother tongues
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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About this book
This volume provides an overview of experimental methods, approaches, and techniques used by field linguists of the Russian school, and highlights the fieldwork experience of Russian scholars working in regions with a range of languages that differ genetically, typologically, and in the degree of their preservation.
The collection presents language and sociolinguistic data relating to fieldwork in diverse languages: Uralic, Altaic, Paleo-Siberian, Yeniseian, Indo-European Iranian, Vietic, Kra-Day, and Mayan languages, as well as pidgin.
The authors highlight the fieldwork techniques they use, and the principles underlying them.
This publication is intended for academics, and for specialists in the field of linguistics and minority and indigenous languages. It will also benefit students as a guide to field research, as well as language activists, interested in documenting and preserving their mother tongue.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Agranat has research interests in Uralic languages, primarily the Baltic-Finnic group, as well as the intragenetic typology of Uralic languages. She also conducts field research in the structure and functioning of minority and endangered languages, the documentation and revitalization of endangered languages, and the methodology of field linguistic research.
She has led numerous expeditions to areas where native speakers of Votic, Ingrian, Vepsian, Seto and Saami languages live compactly; she is also head of the project “Expeditions along the route of M.A. Kastren’s travels in Lapland, Northern Russia and Siberia”.
As a Professor atMSLU, Tatiana B. Agranat combines academic research with teaching general and specialized courses for students and postgraduate students. She is Editor-in-chief of the “Rodnoy Yazyk/Mother Tongue” linguistic journal.
Her principal publications include: “The first two grammars of the Votic language (publishing editor)” (St. Petersburg 2017), “Comparative analysis of grammatical systems of Balto-Finnic languages: the principles of intragenetic typology” (Moscow 2016), “Votic texts with morpheme-by-morpheme glosses” (Moscow 2012), and “Western dialect of the Votic language” (Moscow-Groningen 2007).
Leyli R. Dodykhudoeva, PhD, is a Senior Researcher working in the Iranian Languages Unit of the Department of Indo-European languages at the Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
Dr Dodykhudoeva specializes in minority Iranian languages, including endangeredindigenous languages and those of linguistic minorities (Pamir, Zoroastrian Dari, Gilaki and Mazandarani) in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and China. She is actively involved in field research, working with native Pamir language speakers on language documentation, revitalization and intangible cultural heritage, with particular focus on languages in a state of decline.
Her articles on Pamir languages, particularly those of the Shughnani-Rushani group, Sanglechi and Ishkashimi, have been published in numerous publications on Iranian languages. These include, co-authored with D.I. Edelman, the sections on “Pamir languages” and “Shugh(na)ni language” in “The Iranian languages” encyclopaedic collection edited by Gernot Windfuhr (Routledge 2009), as well as new data on the rare “Sanglichi language” widespread in Afghan Badakhshan, co-authored with Sh.P. Yusufbekov and published in the “Foundations of Iranian Linguistics” (Moscow 2008). Apart from herinterest in the languages and cultures of minority peoples, Leyli R. Dodykhudoeva has published a number of studies devoted to the distinctive poetic and philosophical Persian vocabulary of Nasir Khusraw.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Strategies for Knowledge Elicitation
Book Subtitle: The Experience of the Russian School of Field Linguistics
Editors: Tatiana B. Agranat, Leyli R. Dodykhudoeva
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79341-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79340-1Published: 27 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79343-2Published: 27 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79341-8Published: 26 October 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 247
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy of Language, Education, general, Linguistics, general, Language Education, Research Methods in Language and Linguistics, Intercultural Communication