Ethnograper terdahulu tidak punya alat perekam maka mereka melakukan dokumentasi dengan

ingatan mereka untuk mencatat bahasa yang tidak ada written language. pekerjaannya
membutuhkan kesabaran tinggi.

Jika ada antopologis memiliki perbedaan bahasa maka antropologis harus belajar bahasa yang dia
pelajari.

The more people within the group the more they used the language it is the theory of spiderweb

When language was spoken the problems is language is changing over time the sound changes
transcription will be hard ( to make the symbol of the word is hard)

Pentingnya transkripsi ada di tangan entnographer  ini the important of standard

TRANSCRIPTION

 The practice of transcription (see chapter 5) and its embedding in ethnographic description
is an essential element of this process as investigators make explicit the sources from which
they derive their understanding of a given cultural phenomenon.
 The process of transcription discussed in the next chapter must be understood in the
context of such an enterprise.

Transcription: from writing to digitized images

 showing the linguistic sources of their ethnographic descriptions, that is, informants’
verbal accounts, was a very important part of an anthropologist’s task.
 Boas and Malinowski: transcription meant writing down in a systematic and careful fashion
informants’ answers to questions regarding traditional knowledge and various aspects of the
social organization of their community. To get information about language use, the past
ethnograher must rely on two kinds of techniques:
o try to catch a word or phrase as it was used in the course of an interaction, make a
mental or written note about it, and then wait for an opportunity to ask an nformant
about it
o elicit narratives about a given topic and transcribe them which relied on native
speakers’ ability (and patience) to speak clearly and slowly, and their willingness
to adapt to the ethnographer’s limited understanding of the local language.

lots of things had changed since a more sophisticated media that support the ethnography method
invented such as tape recorder and video.

There are some Transcription tools:

5.1 Writing

Its important for the development of linguistic analysis because

1, they have been crucial for our understanding of how linguistic sounds change over time (historical
linguistics)
2 for the segmentations of meaningful strings of sounds into units of analysis such as sentences and
these, in turn, into words and their components (morphemes, phonemes)

 Written records have allowed linguists to have access to earlier stages of languages
 The theories developed on the basis of such written records have been then used to
reconstruct earlier stages (what linguists call “proto- languages”) of currently spoken
languages that had no indigenous writing tradition.
 Writing is a powerful form of classification because it recognizes certain distinctions while
ignoring others.
 Writing down a language that has never been written before constitutes a first description of
that language.
 Writing down a language also establishes a particular dialect or register among the
several in use at any particular time as the standard language.
o The etho will be lucky if there were people that already write the language. there
are language diversity even they have the same language but they did not
communicate in one another this makes their own uniqueness  their language
register  misal ungkapan di sampang ada yang orang sumenep tidak tahu.
o Which one is better tergantung which use in life is better politeness/ the joy of the
sounds
o The values of culture may change like the val of langu..> the val of dialect maybe
goes up or down depend on the people that value the culture.
o
 a writing system (the practice of reading in particular) might be crucial for developing the
ability to segment speech into separate sounds (phonemes) or larger units (morphemes)
 The hypothesis that writing has an impact on speakers’ ability to perform linguistic analyses
on their own or on other people’s speech is part of an attempt to link the introduction of
literacy to cognitive as well as social changes in individual members of particular speech
communities.

5.2 The word as a unit of analysis

 Alphabetic writing was particularly important for the identification of the word asa basic unit of
analysis in linguistics.
 Among the criteria currently used to isolate words in consistent ways are: pausing, stress, and
certain morphological processes or constraints that seem to apply to words but not to larger
units, Another criterion used to distinguish word units is permutability of word order.
 Traditional orthographies are not always consistent in the ways in which they recognize words
and analysts must develop their own understanding of the status of a particular morpheme or
combination of morphemes.

5.2.1 The word as a unit of analysis in anthropological research

 The most important part of traditional social anthropology, namely, the study of kin- ship
systems, is based on the ability that humans have to use individual words to identify social
relations among people.

5.2.2 The word in historical linguistics

  historical linguistics, that is, the study of how languages change over time, including
the development of different languages from a common ancestor.
 comparative method, a technique by which sound similarities and differences across
languages are systematically examined and laws are proposed to explain those similarities
and differences, started out as a way of matching lists of words.
 The use of word lists from different languages is a powerful method for reconstructing
relationships between different languages.
 Unfortunately, the assumption of uniformity and regularity necessary for this kind of
reconstruction risks perpetrating the view of the meaning of a word as context-independent.
 what we call a word may in fact be expressing different kinds of “signs.” Historical
reconstructions tend to be based on one particular type of sign, namely, “symbols”

5.3 Beyond words

 words only have meaning within the context of a sentence (or a proposition).
 a linguists to look at texts of various sorts to establish the basic word order in a language and
its relation to other syntactic and discourse phenomena.