Chapter 4
Fieldwork and data from Saipan
Article outline
- 4.1Introduction
- 4.2The speech community
- 4.2.1Planned sample population
- 4.2.2Actual sample population
- 4.3Preparatory steps
- 4.3.1Pre-fieldwork: Social media
- 4.3.2Selecting informants
- 4.3.3Exploratory activities and access to informants
- 4.4Sociolinguistic interviews
- 4.4.1Equipment
- 4.4.2Procedure of conducting an interview
- 4.4.3Extra-linguistic factors
- Age
- Sex
- Ethnicity
- Residency
- Religion
- Occupation
- Education
- Mobility
- Additional extra-linguistic factors
- 4.4.4Topics of conversation and the observer’s paradox
- 4.4.5Data management
- 4.4.6Additional data
- 4.5Ethics
- 4.5.1Ethical approach
- 4.5.2Linguistic gratuity
- 4.6Data processing
- 4.6.1The corpus
- 4.6.2Transcription
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