Away with Linguists! Normativity, Inequality and Metascientific Reflexivity in Sociolinguistic Fieldwork

Autor/inn/en	Jaspers, Jürgen; Meeuwis, Michael
Titel	Away with Linguists! Normativity, Inequality and Metascientific Reflexivity in Sociolinguistic Fieldwork
Quelle	In: Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 32 (2013) 6, S.725-749 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0167-8507
DOI	10.1515/multi-2013-0035
Schlagwörter	Sociolinguistics; Ethnography; Foreign Countries; Language Research; Political Influences; Researchers; Belgium; Congo + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziolinguistik; Ethnografie; Ausland; Sprachforschung; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Researcher; Forscher; Belgien; Kongo
Abstract	This paper addresses the fact that in spite of the descriptive and well-intentioned ambitions of much sociolinguistic-ethnographic research, members of studied groups often continue to interpret such research as a largely vertically organized socio-political activity that communicates a prescriptive social and linguistic normativity the researcher is inevitably taken to embody. We argue that while many researchers agree that sociolinguistic fieldwork is inherently political, actual descriptions of informants' awareness of this are still rather scarce. In the process, we demonstrate how members' metascientific reflexivity can be particularly active precisely in and during fieldwork encounters and in the entire research event, complicating the idea of a pure and disinterested description and understanding. (As Provided).
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