Linguistics and Oral History -

Linguistics and Oral History

Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach

Chris FitzGerald (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-45823-9 (ISBN)
118,45 inkl. MwSt
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 synergies between both disciplines.
Contributors from Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, the UK, and the United States each take a different perspective on the relationship between oral history and language. Though linguists have been using oral history texts for some time and oral historians have a long tradition of describing language, there has hitherto been an absence of a single volume that brings together practitioners from both fields to explore the intersection between both areas. 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 tend to focus on language-related aspects of their subject.

In presenting perspectives from both disciplines, this book implicitly exposes the reader to 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 which researchers face when investigating large sets of spoken data.
In essence, 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 development.

Chris Fitzgerald is a Researcher and Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, Ireland.

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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. Analysing 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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Erscheint lt. Verlag 18.9.2025
Zusatzinfo 10 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-350-45823-6 / 1350458236
ISBN-13 978-1-350-45823-9 / 9781350458239
Zustand Neuware
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