Fieldwork on language in interaction: Benefits and barriers

This talk examines the role of data from informal social interaction, such as conversation and child-caregiver interaction, in language documentation. Although interactional data can be transformative for both linguistic analysis (Sacks et al. 1974; Schlegoff et al. 1977) and language reclamation (Baldwin et al. 2018; Hermes & King 2019), it is rarely included in language documentation projects (Rosenblum & Berez-Kroeker 2018; Dingemanse & Floyd 2014). I outline the most common technical, instit