Dec 27, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Studies Bulletin 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Studies Bulletin
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LING 221 - Linguistic Field Methods


Semester Hours: 3
Fall

This course concerns field experience collecting naturally occurring language data, especially vernacular narratives, through Labovian elicitation techniques and interview schedules.  It includes pragmatic communicative analysis, including an introduction to the Columbia School theory of linguistic meaning and its application to Labovian “real data” versus analysis of data from novels.  Difference in analysis of spoken versus written data.

Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
May not be taken on a Pass/Fail basis.





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