Capturing Expressivity Contexts, Methods, and Techniques for Linguistic Research

Jeffrey P. Williams, Professor of Ethnology and Linguistics, Texas Tech University

Jeffrey P. Williams is Professor of Ethnology and Linguistics at Texas Tech University, having previously held positions at the University of Sydney, Vanderbilt University, and Cleveland State University. His research is wide ranging and covers topics such as language contact, English dialectology, expressivity in grammar, neurolinguistics, and language documentation and endangerment.

1. Introduction, Jeffrey P. WilliamsPart I. Contexts2. Ideophones: How the world speaks to us, Christa Kilian-Hatz3. Expressives in Kuanmu singing, Håkan Lundström and Jan-Olof SvantessonPart II. Methods4. Eliciting ideophones in the field: The IdEus-Psylex stimuli collection, Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano5. Diversifying the toolkit for documentary research on ideophones, Bonnie McLean and Mark Dingemanse6. Detecting and analysing expressives in a language corpus, Nicolau Dols and Pere Garau7. Empathy and indirect methods for fieldwork with ideophones in Pastaza and Upper Napo Kichwa, Janis Nuckolls and Tod Swanson8. Documenting stealth lexicon: Field methods to collect the use of ideophones in Yucatec Maya, Olivier Le Guen and Rodrigo Petatillo Chan9. Studying Japanese mimetics, Kimi AkitaPart III. Techniques10. Is there an aesthetic component of language?, Harshit Parmar and Jeffrey P. Williams11. Learning to learn expressives: Finding cultural salience in linguistic fieldwork, Nathan Badenoch