Name: Linguist on the Loose: Adventures and Misadventures in Fieldwork
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Author: Wade Davis
ISBN: 9781474494151

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Linguist on the Loose: Adventures and Misadventures in Fieldwork

Type

Physical Book

Author

Lyle Campbell

Preface by

Wade Davis

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

304

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6x14x1.6 cm

Weight

0.35 kg.

ISBN13

9781474494151

Edition No.

Synopsis "Linguist on the Loose: Adventures and Misadventures in Fieldwork "

Lyle Campbell's linguistic fieldwork has taken him to numerous countries, sometimes in challenging circumstances. It has led to exciting discoveries including a new language in southeastern Guatemala, a unique speech sound, unknown in any other language, in the Nivaclé language of Paraguay and Argentina, and unusual and unique features in several other languages. Along the way, he has experienced dangers and challenges, the joys and excitement of fieldwork, and encountered first-hand the importance of collaborating with indigenous groups to help document and revitalize their languages. Written with humour, heart, and a clear dedication to endangered languages and their speakers, Lyle's vivid memoir is a lesson not only on life in the field but on the importance of language documentation. With so many of the world's languages being lost at an alarming rate, this remains the most compelling and urgent task for linguists now and into the future.

Wade Davis

(Preface by)

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(Vancouver, 1953) is a professor of Anthropology and holds the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. He studied Anthropology and Biology at Harvard University, where he also received his PhD in Ethnobotany. From 1999 to 2013, he was a Resident Explorer at the National Geographic Society. He is the author of more than twenty books, including The River (1996), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1997), Shadows in the Sun (1998), The Rainforest (1998), The Clouded Leopard (1998), and The Guardians of Ancient Wisdom (2009), and in 2012 he won the “Samuel Johnson” Prize for his book Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest. He has also developed a prolific audiovisual career, highlighted by the eight-hour documentary series Light at the Edge of the World, written and produced for the National Geographic Society. Davis has received eleven honorary degrees, as well as the Gold Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2009, and from Harvard University the Explorers Medal (2011), the “David Fairchild” Medal for botanical explorations (2012), and the Centenary Medal (2015). Since 2016, he is a Member of the Order of Canada and in 2017 received the “Sir Christopher Ondaatje” Medal for Exploration.

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