"This volume brings together linguistics and oral history practitioners to explore the synergies between both disciplines. Contributors from Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, the UK, and the United States take different perspectives on the relationship between oral history and language. This book exposes readers to commonalities that exist between oral history and linguistics including methodological parallels in constructing and analysing written transcriptions of spoken events, analytical approachesto determining salient themes and linguistic items, relevant theoretical perspectives that frame discourse practices in oral histories and the practical considerations which researchers face when investigating large sets of spoken data"-- Provided by publisher.
Brings together oral historians and linguists from around the world to explore the complimentary nature of these two disciplines.
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.
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This volume expertly bridges oral history and linguistics, highlighting methods and theoretical perspectives. It finds synergies between practitioners and linguistics, making it essential for anyone interested in how linguistics can inform oral history studies. * Professor Anne OKeeffe, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland * This excellent book is pioneering in showing how the methods of corpus linguistics can illuminate oral history. Fitzgerald has assembled an impressively strong group of authors with different specialisms: each chapter provides an exemplary case study of how corpus linguistics and oral history can be combined to mutual advantage. * Ivor Timmis, Emeritus Professor of English Language Teaching, Leeds Beckett University, UK *
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Brings together oral historians and linguists from around the world to explore the complimentary nature of these two disciplines.
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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 OBrien (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 Hernįndez (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)
Index
Chris Fitzgerald is a Researcher and Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, Ireland.
