Linguistic Ethnography: Collecting, Analysing and Presenting Data

by Fiona Copland, Angela Creese

This is an engaging interdisciplinary guide to the unique role of language within ethnography.   The book provides a philosophical overview of the field alongside practical support for designing and developing your own ethnographic research. It demonstrates how to build and develop arguments and engages with practical issues such as ethics, transcription and impact.   There are chapter-long case studies based on real research that will explain key themes and help you create and analyse your own linguistic data. Drawing on the authors’ experience they outline the practical, epistemological and theoretical decisions that researchers must take when planning and carrying out their studies.   Other key features  This book is a master class in understanding linguistic ethnography, it will of interest to anyone conducting field research across the social sciences.

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 10, 2015

Reviews

[livewugreactions · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a young scholar in linguistic anthropology, this book will be extremely valuable for me in the future. It caught my eye on the bottom of a library shelf, and since I do a very rudimentary form of linguistic ethnography already, I thought it would be useful to actually know what I'm doing. Methodology isn't the most exciting thing to read, but I did find this book very entertaining. I liked the narrative style since that's the kind of ethnographic voice I tend to slip into, and the explanations of the theory and steps of linguistic ethnography were very clear. I will most definitely be citing this in the future.