Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Editor's Foreword -- Publisher's Note -- 1 Field Linguistics: Why Bother? -- 1.1 The threat to diversity -- 1.1.1 Some lessons from Truganini -- 1.1.2 The value of records -- 1.1.3 Diversity still undocumented -- 1.2 The 'Big Questions' -- 1.2.1 Armchairs and dirty feet -- 1.2.2 Fieldwork at home and fieldwork in The Field -- 1.3 What kind of linguistics? -- 1.4 Anthropological and linguistic fieldwork -- 2 Ethical Issues -- 2.1 Linguists and speakers -- 2.1.1 Ethical guidelines -- 2.1.2 Avoiding harm -- 2.1.3 Informed consent -- 2.1.4 Voluntary participation -- 2.1.5 Money and fieldwork -- 2.1.6 Ethical delinquency -- 2.2 Linguists and communities -- 2.2.1 Grammars -- 2.2.2 Dictionaries -- 2.2.3 Reading materials -- 2.2.4 Technical advice -- 2.2.5 Public awareness -- 2.2.6 Terminology development -- 2.2.7 Recognizing our limitations -- 2.3 Linguists and other linguists -- 3 Getting Started -- 3.1 The fieldworker -- 3.2 Choosing a language -- 3.3 Background work -- 3.3.1 Reading the literature -- 3.3.2 The linguist and the lingua franca -- 3.4 Planning your fieldtrip -- 3.4.1 Fieldwork duration -- 3.4.2 Planning for contingencies -- 3.5 Funding -- 3.6 Permits -- 3.7 Equipment and supplies -- 3.7.1 Recording gear -- 3.7.2 Other needs -- 3.8 Getting about in the field -- 3.9 First contact -- 3.9.1 Arriving with an invitation -- 3.9.2 Arriving without an invitation -- 3.9.3 Local reactions to the fieldworker -- 4 Gathering your Data -- 4.1 Choosing language-helpers -- 4.1.1 'Informants' -- 4.1.2 Language-helpers at home -- 4.1.3 Language-helpers in the field -- 4.2 Phonological and grammatical elicitation -- 4.2.1 Language of elicitation -- 4.2.2 Working environment -- 4.2.3 Initial elicitation -- 4.2.4 Eliciting grammatical patterns -- 4.2.5 Taking notes -- 4.2.6 Native-speaker judgements.

4.3 Gathering words -- 4.3.1 Direct elicitation -- 4.3.2 Beyond elicitation -- 4.3.3 Spontaneous speech -- 4.3.4 Sound substitutions -- 4.3.5 When is the dictionary done? -- 4.4 Keeping track of data -- 4.4.1 Daily records -- 4.4.2 Filing systems -- 4.4.3 Computer storage -- 4.5 Archiving -- 5 Beyond Elicitation -- 5.1 The textual corpus -- 5.1.1 Early corpora -- 5.1.2 The recording of speech -- 5.1.3 What to record -- 5.1.4 Reasons for recording -- 5.1.5 How large a corpus? -- 5.1.6 Different genres -- 5.2 Getting it right -- 5.2.1 Evolving analyses -- 5.2.2 Native-speaker error -- 5.2.3 Fieldworker error -- 5.2.4 The problem of tunnel vision -- 5.3 Text transcription -- 5.4 Participant observation -- 5.4.1 Extracting and observing language -- 5.4.2 Overhearing in the field -- 5.4.3 Beyond linguistics -- 6 Problems and Pitfalls -- 6.1 Analysis in the field -- 6.2 Learning to speak the language -- 6.2.1 Reasons for trying -- 6.2.2 Reasons for success and failure -- 6.2.3 Individual differences -- 6.3 Going troppo -- 6.4 Getting caught up -- 6.4.1 Becoming part of the scene -- 6.4.2 Unexpected entanglements -- 6.5 Linguists behaving badly -- 7 Salvage Fieldwork -- 7.1 Getting started -- 7.1.1 Responding to the enthusiastic -- 7.1.2 Persuading the reluctant -- 7.2 Working with a limited number of speakers -- 7.2.1 Diminishing speaker populations -- 7.2.2 Diminishing structures -- 7.3 Legitimate linguistic authority -- 7.4 Saving the language? -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.