Gibb, R. (2019) ‘Demystifying’ multilingual fieldwork: on the importance of documenting and reflecting on language learning in ethnographic research. In: Gibb, R., Tremlett, A. and Danero Iglesias, J. (eds.) Learning and Using Languages in Ethnographic Research. Series: Researching multilingually. Multilingual Matters: Bristol. ISBN 9781788925914
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Abstract
Drawing on my experiences of conducting ethnographic research in France and Bulgaria, I argue in this chapter that documenting and reflecting on language learning has a crucial part to play in breaking the silence that often still surrounds how researchers learn and use different languages for fieldwork. I begin by highlighting the fact that my PhD thesis was effectively ‘silent’ about such questions, before describing how in recent research in Bulgaria I attempted to document and analyse my language learning practices much more systematically. I then compare the approaches to language learning I adopted for these two studies, showing how my language learning practices in relation to Bulgarian were informed by what I had learned from reflecting on my experience of using French for my PhD work. Finally, I suggest that ‘demystifying’ multilingual fieldwork also requires an open discussion with the bodies that fund
| Item Type: | Book Sections (Other) |
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| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Gibb, Dr Robert |
| Authors: | Gibb, R. |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences |
| Publisher: | Multilingual Matters |
| ISBN: | 9781788925914 |
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