Linguistics and Oral History: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach

This edited volume brings together linguistic and oral history practitioners to explore the intersections between both disciplines.

This book is comprised of contributions from linguists (corpus linguists, sociolinguists, dialectologists and second language acquisition experts) to present how they investigate oral history texts from a linguistic perspective as well as contributions from oral history practitioners who focus on language-related aspects of their subject.

In presenting perspect...