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Linguistics and Oral History
Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach
Linguistics and Oral History
Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach
Description
This edited volume brings together linguistic and oral history practitioners to explore the intersections between both disciplines.
This book is comprised of contributions from linguists (corpus linguists, sociolinguists, dialectologists and second language acquisition experts) to present how they investigate oral history texts from a linguistic perspective as well as contributions from oral history practitioners who focus on language-related aspects of their subject.
In presenting perspectives from both disciplines, this book exposes the synergies that exist between oral history and linguistics including methodological parallels in constructing and analysing written transcriptions of spoken events, analytical approaches to determining salient themes and linguistic items, relevant theoretical perspectives that frame discourse practices in oral histories and the practical considerations facing researchers when investigating large samples of spoken discourse.
This book shows that oral historians and linguists are often doing the same things in different ways and makes the case for more collaboration between the disciplines to promote exchange of ideas, efficiency of practice and reciprocal progression.
Table of Contents
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List of Contributors
Introduction, Chris Fitzgerald (Mary Immaculate College, Ireland)
1. The Role of Memory and Language in Oral Histories, Natalie Braber (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
2. In and Out of Context: Oral History as Data, Mary Larson (Oklahoma State University, USA)
3. The Collector as A Linguist: Interpreting Transcription Practices of Irish English Oral Ethnographies, Gili Diamant (Cardiff University, UK)
4. Oral History and the Limits of Interpretation, Steven High (Concordia University, Canada)
5. Analyzing for Resistance in Talk and Text: Challenges and Opportunities for Critical Discourse Analysts and Oral Historians, Elizabeth Kiely (University College Cork, Ireland)
6. Oral History with Second Language Narrators, Carol McKirdy (TAFE, Sydney, Australia)
7. Crossroads: Where Oral History, English Language Teaching, and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies Intersect, Mary Romney-Schaab (Capital Community College, Connecticut, USA)
8. 'Linguistics Hadn't Been Invented': Oral Histories of Speech Therapy in the Twentieth Century, Jois Stansfield (Scottish Oral History Centre, UK)
9. Combining Oral History and Linguistics to Explore Public Art and Cultural Memory, Sarah O'Brien (Mary Immaculate College, Ireland) and Chris Fitzgerald (Mary Immaculate College, Ireland)
10. The Regional Dialects Diachronic (REDD) Corpus Project: Using Archives for Dialectology Research, Sarah Kirk-Browne (The British Library, UK)
11. The Freiburg Corpus of English Dialects (FRED): Challenges and Affordances of a Corpus of Oral Histories, Nuria Hernández (Duisburg Essen University, Germany) and Susanne Wagner (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany)
12. Keywords in Discourse: Unlocking the Meaning Attributed to Historical Events around the French Libération (1944) in Interviews with Time Witnesses in Later Life, Annette Gerstenberg (Potsdam University, Germany)
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Product details
| Published | 21 Aug 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781350458246 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 5 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
