ILCAA Joint Research Project

“Failure” in Field Linguistics (jrp000285)

About the Project

Project term: April, 2023–March, 2025

In this project, field linguists share their own experiences of failures in their fieldwork. It has been recognized that these experiences of failure are not mentioned in papers. As a result, problems are less likely to surface and failures tend to remain within the experience of the individual. Therefore, in this research project, members share failure cases and discuss the causes and coping methods, so that similar failures can be prevented in the future.

Members

Coordinator

• Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI

ILCAA Staff

• Honoré WATANABE
• Hideo SAWADA
• Asako SHIOHARA
• Toshihide NAKAYAMA

Joint Researchers

• Hayato AOI
• Daisuke EBINA
• Kazuya INAGAKI
• Atsuhiko KATO
• Yukinori KIMOTO
• Megumi KUREBITO
• Kunihiko KUROKI
• Michinori SHIMOJI
• Syuntaro TIDA
• Yuko URABE
• Nobuko YONEDA

Outputs

Meetings

The 4th meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 16 Nov 2024 13:00–18:00, Sun 17 Nov 2024 10:00–15:00
• Venue: 304, Online meeting
• Language: Japanese

• 16 Nov

  13:00–13:05

  Introduction

  13:05–14:15 Megumi KUREBITO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples)

  “The Long Way from a “Failure” to “Success” in Field Linguistics: The Case of Koryak”

  14:30–15:40 Hayato AOI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “I Gave Up on Being a Fieldworker: A Slanted Path”

  16:00–17:10 Michinori SHIMOJI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyushu University)

  “The Failure of Becoming a Field Linguist: Reflecting on a Path That Wasn’t Right for Me –Past and Future”

  17:10–18:00

  General discussion

  17 Nov

  10:00–11:10 Nobuko YONEDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher)

  “It All Started with a “failure”: In Africa”

  11:25–12:35 Yuko URABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)

  “My Failures during My Fieldwork in Yaeyama”

  13:30–14:40 Daisuke EBINA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies)

  “Much-studied and Less-studied Languages: Fieldwork in South America”

  14:40–15:00

  General discussion

The 3rd meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sat 1 Jun 2024 13:00–17:30
• Venue: 306, Online meeting
• Language: Japanese

• 13:00–13:05

  Introduction

  13:05–15:00 Yukinori KIMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Hyogo)

  “Failures and regrets in the study of Filipino hunter-gatherer languages: reflections on everything from site selection to career development”

  15:10–17:20 Syuntarô TIDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)

  “Field linguistics and prescriptive linguistics” (tentative)

  17:20–17:30

  Discussion

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Tue 5 Mar 2024 11:00–18:00
• Venue: 304, Online meeting
• Language: Japanese

• 11:00–11:10

  Introduction

  11:10–12:20 Hideo SAWADA (ILCAA)

  “The shame of field trips not scraped off”

  13:20–14:30 Atsuhiko KATO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Keio University)

  “Failures in my research on Karen”

  14:40–15:50 Kazuya INAGAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nanzan University)

  “Not to regret: Linguistic fieldwork in Indonesia”

  16:00–17:10 Honoré WATANABE (ILCAA)

  “How we hear only what we want to hear -- from my research on Sliammon”

  17:20–18:00

  Discussion

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)

• Date/Time: Sun 15 Oct 2023 10:00–16:00
• Venue: 303, Online meeting
• Language: Japanese

• 10:00–10:30

  Introduction/Self-introduction

  10:40–11:40 Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI (ILCAA)

  Introduction: Failures and regrets in my fieldwork

  12:40–13:40 Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA)

  Failures encountered during my linguistic fieldwork in Indonesia

  14:00–15:00 Kunihiko KUROKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe Shoin Women’s University)

  Don't be like me!! -The teacher who made a mistake in data management

  15:10–16:00

  Discussion

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