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Title:Reflections on linguistic fieldwork in Mexico and Central America
Bibliographic Citation:Pérez Báez, Gabriela; 2018-12-01; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24833.
Creator:Pérez Báez, Gabriela
Date (W3CDTF):2018-12-01
Description:In this chapter, I endeavor to contribute towards a collective effort to reflect on the evolution and state-of-the-art of language documentation. I reflect on Himmelman (1998) from the perspective of language endangerment and revitalization in Mexico and Central America today. I identify a number of topics that are critical to the practice of language documentation in the region and that in my view were only marginally mentioned in Himmelmann's seminal paper. These topics revolve around the participation, consent, interests and needs of speakers of the very languages that are documented. Notably, I argue that (i) language documentation is critical for language revitalization, (ii) I echo current calls in the community-based research literature for ensuring that language documentation is collaborative, (iii) that to this end, training opportunities for language community members need to increase and (iv) that a concerted effort is needed to develop appropriate ways to ensure informed consent in language documentation.
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Identifier:Pérez Báez, Gabriela. 2018. Reflections on linguistic fieldwork in Mexico and Central America. In McDonnell, Bradley, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, and Gary Holton. (Eds.) Reflections on Language Documentation 20 Years after Himmelmann 1998. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication no. 15. [PP 330-339] Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
978-0-9973295-3-7
Identifier (URI):http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24833
Publisher:University of Hawai'i Press
Relation:LD&C Special Publication
Rights:Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License
Subject:Mexico
Central America
collaboration
community-based research
language revitalization
Table Of Contents:ldc-sp15-perezbaez.pdf

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