Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies
Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies

Author: Chris Fitzgerald

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-30

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1000823652

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Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies guides the reader through the process of sourcing a relevant oral history archive for linguistic analysis, constructing a representative corpus out of this archive and analysing this using corpus tools. Focusing on the oral history archive at the Irish Bureau of Military History, this book shows how corpus linguistics can illuminate themes worthy of investigation that may otherwise remain hidden. This is exemplified through the investigation of how certainty is constructed in this archive through a number of expressions and which serves as a template for both how oral history can aid linguistic understanding and how corpus linguistics can contribute to oral history investigation. Highlighting why oral history archives are worthy of linguistic analysis and showing what readers can gain from blending linguistic tools and competencies with oral history data, this book is essential reading for all researchers and students working in the areas of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and oral history.

Corpus Linguistics for Oral History
Corpus Linguistics for Oral History

Author: Chris Fitzgerald

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-11-14

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 104016479X

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Corpus Linguistics for Oral History takes a step-by-step approach to presenting how corpus linguistics tools and techniques can be applied to oral history archives. Bridging the gap between the two areas, this book: establishes a framework to pursue this type of research and guides the reader through tasks that will ensure practical application shows how oral narratives can facilitate historical linguistics, including historical sociolinguistics and historical pragmatics illustrates how the techniques of corpus linguistics can help social historians to analyse oral narratives in new and fruitful ways takes readers through each step of the process, from initial close readings of data to constructing a corpus that adheres to parameters of representativeness, through to the application of various corpus linguistics techniques includes an appendix of resources and examples of extracts from a global range of historical texts throughout, introducing the reader to a range of freely accessible, digitized archives This book is key reading for students and researchers working in History and Corpus Linguistics. History students will find a new perspective on approaching primary historical sources, while linguistics students will find insights into an avenue of data worthy of multiple levels of linguistic analysis.

Catching Stories
Catching Stories

Author: Donna M. DeBlasio

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2009-05-04

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0804040400

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In neighborhoods, schools, community centers, and workplaces, people are using oral history to capture and collect the kinds of stories that the history books and the media tend to overlook: stories of personal struggle and hope, of war and peace, of family and friends, of beliefs, traditions, and values—the stories of our lives. Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral History is a clear and comprehensive introduction for those with little or no experience in planning or undertaking oral history projects. Opening with the key question, “Why do oral history?” the guide outlines the stages of a project from idea to final product—planning and research, the interviewing process, basic technical principles, and audio and video recording techniques. The guide covers interview transcribing, ethical and legal issues, archiving, funding sources, and sharing oral history with audiences. Intended for teachers, students, librarians, local historians, and volunteers as well as individuals, Catching Stories is the place to start for anyone who wants to document the memories and collect the stories of community or family.

Talking History
Talking History

Author: Megan Hutching

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 9780908912469

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"Oral history is used today for many different purposes. This first guide for New Zealand researchers describes the planning of projects and identification of interviewees. It discusses appropriate equipment, and methods of recording. Different types of interviews and questions are covered. Finally the processing of the interview is described - transcribing, abstracting and indexing. Excerpts from oral histories illustrate this book, along with photographs."--Back cover.

The Oral History Manual
The Oral History Manual

Author: Barbara W. Sommer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1442270802

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The Oral History Manualis designed to help anyone interested in doing oral history research to think like an oral historian. Recognizing that oral history is a research methodology, the authors define oral history and then discuss the methodology in the context of the oral history life cycle – the guiding steps that take a practitioner from idea through access/use. They examine how to articulate the purpose of an interview, determine legal and ethical parameters, identify narrators and interviewers, choose equipment, develop budgets and record-keeping systems, prepare for and record interviews, care for interview materials, and use the interview information. In this third edition, in addition to new information on methodology, memory, technology, and legal options incorporated into each chapter, a completely new chapter provides guidelines on how to analyze interview content for effective use of oral history interview information. The Oral History Manualprovides an updated and expanded road map and a solid introduction to oral history for all oral history practitioners, from students to community and public historians.

History of Oral History
History of Oral History

Author: Thomas Lee Charlton

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780759102309

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Contains seven essays from Handbook of oral history, published in 2006.

A Guide to Oral History and the Law
A Guide to Oral History and the Law

Author: John A. Neuenschwander

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-12

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0199342520

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According to the Oral History Association, the term oral history refers to "a method of recording and preserving oral testimony" which results in a verbal document that is "made available in different forms to other users, researchers, and the public." Ordinarily such an academic process would seem to be far removed from legal challenges. Unfortunately this is not the case. While the field has not become a legal minefield, given its tremendous growth and increasing focus on contemporary topics, more legal troubles could well lie ahead if sound procedures are not put in place and periodically revisited. A Guide to Oral History and the Law is the definitive resource for all oral history practitioners. In clear, accessible language it thoroughly explains all of the major legal issues including legal release agreements, the protection of restricted interviews, the privacy torts (including defamation), copyright, the impact of the Internet, and the role of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). The author accomplishes this by examining the most relevant court cases and citing examples of policies and procedures that oral history programs have used to avoid legal difficulties. Neuenschwander's central focus throughout the book is on prevention rather than litigation. He underscores this approach by strongly emphasizing how close adherence to the Oral History Association's Principles and Best Practices provides the best foundation for developing sound legal policies. The book also provides more than a dozen sample legal release agreements that are applicable to a wide variety of situations. This volume is an essential one for all oral historians regardless of their interviewing focus.

Oral Tradition
Oral Tradition

Author: Robert Loring Allen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-08

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 135150133X

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Oral traditions are historical sources of a special nature. Their special nature derives from the fact that they are ""unwritten"" sources couched in a form suitable for oral transmission, and that their preservation depends on the powers of memory of successive generations of human beings. In many parts of the world inhabited by peoples without writing, oral tradition forms the main available source for a reconstruction of the past. Do the special characteristics of oral traditions u ""unwritten"" information dependent on the memory of successive generations u invalidate them as sources of historical data? If not, are there means for testing their reliability? Professor Vansina shows in Oral Tradition that with knowledge of the language and of the society, the anthropologist and historian can extract or deduce the historical content of oral testimonies. Based on the author's many years of fieldwork in Africa, this definitive work explores the possibility of reconstructing the history of non-literate peoples from their oral traditions, surveys existing literature, offers a typology of oral traditions, and evaluates methods of collection and interpretation. On first publication, Daniel McCall in the American Anthropologist called Oral Tradition "" a tour de force. Indeed this may well be the most significant work written on the relation of oral tradition to history in thirty yearsafor any field worker who intends to collect oral traditions, this work is indispensable.

Oral History
Oral History

Author: Patricia Leavy

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-02-24

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 0195395093

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Part of the Understanding Statistics/Understanding Qualitative Researcch series, Oral History serves as a guide to properly recording oral histories. This volume also addresses the challenges of evaluating this material.

Handbook of Oral History
Handbook of Oral History

Author: Thomas Lee Charlton

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 638

ISBN-13: 0759111928

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In recent decades, oral history has matured into an established field of critical importance to historians and social scientists alike. Handbook of Oral History captures the current state-of-the-art, identifies major strands of intellectual development, and predicts key directions for future growth in theory, research, and application.