Getting the Story Straight: Language Fieldwork Using a Narrative Problem-Solving Task

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dc.contributor.authorSan Roque, Lila
dc.contributor.authorGawne, Lauren
dc.contributor.authorHoenigman, Darja
dc.contributor.authorMiller, Julia Colleen
dc.contributor.authorRumsey, Alan
dc.contributor.authorSpronck, Stef
dc.contributor.authorCarroll, Alice
dc.contributor.authorEvans, Nicholas
dc.date.accessioned2012-05-08T01:55:33Z
dc.date.available2012-05-08T01:55:33Z
dc.date.issued2012-05
dc.description.abstractWe describe a structured task for gathering enriched language data for descriptive, comparative, and documentary purposes, focusing on the domain of social cognition. The task involves collaborative narrative problem-solving and retelling by a pair or small group of language speakers, and was developed as an aid to investigating grammatical categories relevant to social cognition. The pictures set up a dramatic story in which participants can feel empathetic involvement with the characters, and trace individual motivations, mental and physical states, and points of view. The data-gathering task allows different cultural groups to imbue the pictures with their own experiences, concerns, and conventions, and stimulates the spontaneous use of previously under-recorded linguistic structures. We argue that stimulus-based elicitation tasks that are designed to stimulate a range of speech types (descriptions, dialogic interactions, narrative) within the single task contribute quantitatively and qualitatively to language documentation, and provide an important means of gathering spontaneous but broadly parallel, and thus comparable, linguistic data. [pictures used in these tasks are available here http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4504]
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.format.extent40 pages
dc.identifier.citationSan Roque, Lila, et al. 2012. Getting the Story Straight: Language Fieldwork Using a Narrative Problem-Solving Task. Language Documentation & Conservation 6. 135-174.
dc.identifier.issn1934-5275
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/4504
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
dc.subjectlanguage fieldwork
dc.subjectnarrative task
dc.subjectstimulus-based elicitation
dc.subjectlanguage documentation
dc.titleGetting the Story Straight: Language Fieldwork Using a Narrative Problem-Solving Task
dc.typeArticle
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prism.endingpage174
prism.publicationnameLanguage Documentation & Conservation
prism.startingpage135
prism.volume6

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