{"id":3887,"date":"2010-04-26T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2010\/04\/fieldwork-training-workshop-in-manchester\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:49:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:49:18","slug":"fieldwork-training-workshop-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2010\/04\/fieldwork-training-workshop-in-manchester\/","title":{"rendered":"Fieldwork training workshop in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute for Linguistics and Language Studies (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.llc.manchester.ac.uk\/ills\/\">ILLS<\/a>) at The University of Manchester and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llas.ac.uk\/\">Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies<\/a> are co-organising a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llas.ac.uk\/events\/6155\">fieldwork training<\/a> workshop to be held in Manchester on 20th May. This event is aimed at both postgraduate students and lecturers with an interest in teaching field methods for the study of linguistic variation and non-standard varieties. Topics to be covered include the documentation approach to language data, quantitative and qualitative methods in urban sociolinguistic fieldwork, fieldwork challenges in the study of micro-variation at the syntax\/semantics interface in cognate languages, and conducting large-scale dialect surveys (grammar and lexicon). There will also be a roundtable discussion on ethical issues in fieldwork and a forum on issues arising in teaching field methods.<br \/>\nThe workshop is aimed at both postgraduate students and lecturers with an interest in teaching field methods for the study of linguistic variation and non-standard varieties. There is no charge to attend for employees and postgraduate students of publicly funded UK higher educational institutions and other institutions with a subscription to the Higher Education Academy. There is a small charge for others to attend, and travel bursaries are available. For more details and to enrol see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llas.ac.uk\/events\/6155\">LLAS website<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis is the third fieldwork training event to be held in the UK in the past year. The previous two were in London at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/linguistics\/\">SOAS Linguistics Department<\/a> in <a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/05\/fieldwork-workshops\/\">May 2009<\/a> and <a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/10\/teaching-linguistic-fieldwork-and-sustainability\/\">December 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute for Linguistics and Language Studies (ILLS) at The University of Manchester and the Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies are co-organising a fieldwork training workshop to be held in Manchester on 20th May. 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