TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Mucha, Anne
T1  - Multilingual elicitation in a multilingual fieldwork setting
JF  - Semantic field methods
N2  - In semantic fieldwork, it is common to use a language other than the language under investigation for presenting linguistic materials to the language consultants, e.g. discourse contexts in acceptability judgment tasks. Previous works commenting on the use of a ‘meta-language’ or ‘language of wider communication’ in this sense (AnderBois and Henderson 2015; Matthewson 2004) have argued that this practice is not methodologically inferior to the exclusive use of the object language for elicitation, but that the fieldworker needs to be alert to potential influences of the meta-language or, indeed, the object language, on the elicited judgments. Thus, the choice of a language for presenting discourse contexts is an integral component of fieldwork methodology. This paper provides a research report with a focus on this component. It describes a multilingual fieldwork setting offering several potential meta-languages, which the fieldworker and the consultants master to varying degrees. The choice of the languages in this setting is discussed with regard to methodological, social and practical considerations and related to selected, more general methodological questions regarding semantic fieldwork practice.
KW  - meta-language
KW  - elicitation
KW  - multilingualism
KW  - research report
KW  - Mehrsprachigkeit
KW  - Feldforschung
KW  - Semantik
KW  - Metasprache
KW  - Objektsprache
KW  - Diskurs
KW  - Methodologie
KW  - Forschungsbericht
Y1  - 2022
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-113359
SN  - 2562-9271
SS  - 2562-9271
U6  - https://doi.org/10.14288/sfm.v4i1.195326
DO  - https://doi.org/10.14288/sfm.v4i1.195326
VL  - 4
IS  - 1
SP  - 21
S1  - 21
PB  - Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia
CY  - Vancouver
ER  -