LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:10 October 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Linguistic Data Collection: A Field Observation

Nivedita Lahkar, Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

Linguistic research can contribute data toward the understanding of language universals. There is a direct relation between field work and language description. The more field work, the more information we will have about the variability of language. The study is an attempt to describe the the different types of data collection with special reference to linguistic field work.

Keywords: Data, Field, Informant.

1. Introduction

The field is the main treasure-trove of the data of the linguists, because field linguistics has played an important part in the collection of the data of the languages. Samarin, J. William. (1967) has mentioned that ‘A field is primarily a way of obtaining linguistic data and studying linguistic phenomena it involves two particular participants, the speaker of a language and the linguistic researcher’. So fieldwork is indispensable for the collection of data in linguistic field. . Field research involves observing and recording real spoken language/s as used by various members of a society in various contexts and times, and then analyzing the data according to some specific linguistic methodology. It is a general fact that the field researcher has to rely completely upon the community whose language s/he undertakes to study.

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Nivedita Lahkar, Ph.D. Scholar
Depertment of Linguistics
Assam University
Silchar -788011
Assam
India
nivedita.rm@gmail.com
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