Learning and Using Languages in Ethnographic Research

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Learning and Using Languages in Ethnographic Research is written by Robert Gibb and published by Multilingual Matters. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1788925939 (ISBN 10) and 9781788925938 (ISBN 13).

Learning and Using Languages in Ethnographic Research breaks the silence that still surrounds learning a language for ethnographic research and in the process demystifies some of the multilingual aspects of contemporary ethnographic work. It does this by offering a set of engaging and accessible accounts of language learning and use written by ethnographers who are at different stages of their academic career. A key theme is how researchers’ experiences of learning and using other languages in fieldwork contexts relate to wider structures of power, hierarchy and inequality. The volume aims to promote a wider debate among researchers about how they themselves learn and use different languages in their work, and to help future fieldworkers make more informed choices when carrying out ethnographic research using other languages.