Marie Maegaard listening to comments |
Tore Kristiansen and Frans Gregersen commenting |
Tanya Karoli Christensen
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Monday 28th March N'CLAV participants, PhD-students and linguistic students gathered at the University of Copenhagen for a course focusing on field work.
Torben Juel Jensen began by welcoming the participants and presenting LANCHART, the centre of language change that hosts the course. Then Tore Kristiansen took the stand with a thorough and well planned presentation on sociolinguistic methodology. Kristiansen stressed the need to be very specific in research questions, he explained what it means to operationalise these issues and pointed out that it is useful to illustrate your research questions using several different methods. Along the way we also got to know what might count as empirical or not.
After lunch Marie Maegaard problematised the sociolinguistic interview and the assumptions underlying the use of this method. We got a chance to discuss opportunities and limitations of the classic sociolinguistic interview and the question of reliability and validity compared to newer, ethnographic methods. We also discussed the field worker's role in relation to the informants and in relation to the interpretation of data and took several turns in discussing important ethical issues such as disclosure of sensitive personal data and inclusion of participants who are not aware that they are being recorded.
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