Leemann, Adrian; Jeszenszky, Péter; Steiner, Carina; Messerli, Jan; Studerus, Melanie (2020). Linguistic fieldwork in a pandemic: Supervised data collection combining smartphone recordings and videoconferencing. Linguistics Vanguard, 6 (s3). 10.1515/lingvan-2020-0061
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Linguistic data collection typically involves conducting interviews with participants in close proximity. The safety precautions related to the COVID-19 pandemic brought such data collection to an abrupt halt: Social distancing forced linguistic fieldwork into involuntary hibernation in many parts of the world. Such hardship, however, can inspire innovation. In this contribution, we present an approach that – we believe – enables a reliable switch from in-person, face-to-face interviews to virtual, online data collection. In this approach, participants remain at home and navigate a smartphone application, enabling high-quality audio recordings and multisensory presentation of linguistic material, while they are being supervised via videoconferencing (Zoom 2020https://zoom.us/ (accessed 11 August 2020)). The smartphone app and the infrastructure presented are open source, accessible, and adaptable to researchers’ specific needs. To explore whether participants’ experiences of in-person data collection are different from participation in a virtual setting, we conducted a study with 36 participants. Overall, findings revealed a substantial degree of overlap in interview experience, setting a methodological baseline for future work. We end this contribution by discussing the benefits and pitfalls of this new approach.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Carina Steiner |
Date Deposited: |
20 May 2025 12:04 |
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22 May 2025 19:56 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1515/lingvan-2020-0061 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
linguistic fieldwork, pandemic, COVID-19, smartphone app, Swiss German |
PHBern DOI: |
10.57694/7693 |
URI: |
https://phrepo.phbern.ch/id/eprint/7693 |
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