This month’s episode is with Dr. Karolina Grzech at the University of Valencia. Karolina is a documentary and descriptive linguist, working mostly on Quechuan languages and natural language use. Her main topics of research are evidentiality (encoding how we know things) and epistemicity (encoding different aspects of knowledge). She is particularly interested in how these categories play out in natural discourse. She also researches pragmatics in general, and, language endangerment and methodology of linguistic fieldwork, with special reference to the indigenous language of South America. Karolina is also interested in the socio-economic issues which affect minority and endangered languages and the communities which use them.
Finally, if you are interested in learning more about Quechuan languages, last season Field Notes aired an interview with Gladys Camacho Ríos on her work with her native language, South Bolivian Quechua (episode linked below in show notes).
Caption: A typical session of the project: researcher Darwin Grefa interviews Camilo Alvarado, with Karolina Grzech recording at the Tumanangu community near Archidona, Napo province, Ecuador.
Things mentioned in this episode:
- MA in Language Documentation & Description at SOAS, University of London
- Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
- Endangered Languages Archive
- Field Notes Ep. 46: Kate Lindsey on Idi and Ende Language Documentation in Papua New Guinea
- Shuar language
- Kichwa language
- Endangered oral traditions of Kichwa-speaking Ecuador: collaborative documentation of Chibuleo Kichwa / Tradiciones orales amenazadas del Ecuador Kichwa-hablante: documentación colaborativa del Kichwa de Chibuleo (ELAR deposit)
- Upper Napo Kichwa: documentation of language and culture (ELAR deposit)
- Endangered oral traditions of Kichwa-speaking Ecuador: collaborative documentation of Upper Napo Kichwa / Tradiciones orales amenazadas del Ecuador Kichwa-hablante: documentación colaborativa del Kichwa de Alto Napo (ELAR deposit)
- Field Notes Ep. 36: Quechuan Language Documentation & Revitalization with Gladys Camacho Ríos
- Language Landscape
- Karolina on Google Scholar
- Karolina on ResearchGate
- Karolina on Academia
Caption: Typical session of the Upper Napo Kichwa documentation project. Wilma Aguinda interviewing Carolina Grefa about her life experience and her work as a midwife.
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