Documentary Linguistics and Community Relations
Documentary Linguistics and Community Relations
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纪录片语言学和社区关系
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2011
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K. Rice
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K. Rice
不久前，我听了一个有关科学的广播系列节目的部分内容。关于物理学以及理论和实证工作在物理学中的作用的一集特别引起了我的注意。演讲者主张物理学中实证工作的核心本质，以及从广义上讲，需要关注实证工作而不是理论，以便在此时取得进展。他认为理论的进步只有随着实证研究的进步才会发生。关于物理学的讨论让我思考了（至少）过去半个世纪围绕语言实证研究的语言学争论。在语言学中，就像在物理学中一样，一直存在着关于理论和实证工作之间的平衡的争论。在我将用“田野工作”一词来描述的世界中，由于其重点是实证工作，文献语言学领域再次引起了许多此类争议的关注。纪实语言学有一个实证目标：专注于数据的收集和归档，并制定与多样化语料库的收集、归档和分析相关的原则。在纪实语言学中，就像一般科学领域的许多工作一样，人们担心问责制和可复制性。通过这些方式，纪实语言学延续了将语言学视为一门科学的传统，重点关注其经验方面。在文献语言学中，至少在某个时间点，重点是数据收集和管理，而不是深度数据分析和描述。有关文献语言学的详细讨论，请参阅 Himmelmann (1998, 2006)、Austin (2010) 和 Woodbury (2003, 2011) 等。在广播节目中谈论物理学的人没有提到另一个经常与纪实语言学相关的问题——这个问题也一直是一个问题。
Not too long ago, I listened to parts of a radio series on science. An episode on physics, and the role of theory and empirical work in physics, particularly caught my attention. The speaker was arguing for the core nature of empirical work within physics, and the need to focus on empirical work over theory, broadly speaking, in order to make advances at this time. He argued that theoretical advances would occur only with advances in empirical research. This discussion about physics made me think about debates in linguistics over (at least) the last half-century around empirical research on languages. In linguistics, as in physics, there have been debates about the balance between theory and empirical work. In the world that I will characterize with the term fieldwork , with its focus on empirical work, the field of documentary linguistics has once again brought to the fore many of these controversies. Documentary linguistics has an empirical goal: focusing on the collection and archiving of data, with the development of principles relating to collection, archiving, and analysis of a diverse corpus. In documentary linguistics, like much work in science more generally, there are concerns about accountability and replicability. In these ways, documentary linguistics continues the tradition of regarding linguistics as a science, with a concentration on its empirical aspects. In documentary linguistics, the focus has been on data gathering and management over deep data analysis and description, at least for a point in time. See Himmelmann (1998, 2006), Austin (2010), and Woodbury (2003, 2011), among others, for detailed discussion of documentary linguistics. The person talking about physics on the radio program made no mention of another concern that is often associated with documentary linguistics—one that has also been an