Assessing scholarship in documentary linguistics

Garrett and Harris offer strategies for assessing documentary linguistics. Documentary linguistics is new and distinctive enough that some linguists and other participants in academic reviews may be uncertain about how to assess its outputs. Documentary linguistics creates records of understudied la...

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Published in:Language (Baltimore) 2022-09, Vol.98 (3), p.e156-e172
Main Authors: Garrett, Andrew, Harris, Alice C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Endangered languages
Hiring
Language documentation
Linguistics
Linguists
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Summary:Garrett and Harris offer strategies for assessing documentary linguistics. Documentary linguistics is new and distinctive enough that some linguists and other participants in academic reviews may be uncertain about how to assess its outputs. Documentary linguistics creates records of understudied languages, especially endangered languages. This approach is new enough and its disciplinary norms and research outputs distinctive enough within linguistics that colleagues sometimes find it challenging to assess work in this area. Even documentary linguists themselves, who may engage in work that does not match an archetype of academic research, may be unsure how best to present their own work in hiring and promotion cases. In the last decade, the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) has adopted two resolutions relating to the significance of language documentation. Here, expanding on these institutional statements, we recommend specific strategies for assessing scholarship in this area in academic review contexts.
ISSN:0097-8507
1535-0665
1535-0665
DOI:10.1353/lan.0.0266