Free Access in January 2019 There has been an increasing interest in the emerging subfield
within linguistics and anthropology often referred to as community-based research (Himmelmann
1998 Rice 2010 Crippen and Robinson 2013 among others). This volume brings together
perspectives from academics community members and those that find themselves in both academia
and the community. The volume begins with a working definition of the notions of
community-based research as a practice and illustrates how such notions shifted without
abandoning the outlined tenets within the working definition as the chapters developed to
include notions of community-based research as a tool and ideology as well as an orientation.
Each of the 17 chapters represents a case-study with the first five including discussions of
broader issues and theoretical perspectives while exploring community-based research as an
emerging subfield within linguistics. The case-studies comprise work from the Americas
Australia India Europe and Africa. The goal of the volume is to build on the emerging
literature and practices in the field to arrive at a better understanding of how
community-based research is theorized and practiced in a variety of environments communities
and cultures.
