Carol Genetti, Ph.D. - Blurring the Lines at InField/CoLang: Inclusion

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Carol Genetti, Carlos Nash
Anne Storch, R.M.W. Dixon, The Art of Language: On the Tasks of Linguistics, a Festschrift for Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Brill, Leiden, 2022, pp. 316-342.

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Genetti, C., & Nash, C. (2022). Blurring the Lines at InField/CoLang: Inclusion and Impacts. In A. Storch & R. M. W. Dixon (Eds.), The Art of Language: On the Tasks of Linguistics, a Festschrift for Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (pp. 316–342.). Leiden: Brill.

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Genetti, Carol, and Carlos Nash. “Blurring the Lines at InField/CoLang: Inclusion and Impacts.” In The Art of Language: On the Tasks of Linguistics, a Festschrift for Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, edited by Anne Storch and R.M.W. Dixon, 316–342. Leiden: Brill, 2022.

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Genetti, Carol, and Carlos Nash. “Blurring the Lines at InField/CoLang: Inclusion and Impacts.” The Art of Language: On the Tasks of Linguistics, a Festschrift for Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, edited by Anne Storch and R.M.W. Dixon, Brill, 2022, pp. 316–42.

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@incollection{genetti2022a,
  title = {Blurring the Lines at InField/CoLang: Inclusion and Impacts},
  year = {2022},
  address = {Leiden},
  pages = {316-342.},
  publisher = {Brill},
  author = {Genetti, Carol and Nash, Carlos},
  editor = {Storch, Anne and Dixon, R.M.W.},
  booktitle = {The Art of Language: On the Tasks of Linguistics, a Festschrift for Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald}
}

ABSTRACT

In this chapter we trace the history of the InField/Colang with a focus on the intentional blending of community-based and academic participants. Following a brief overview of the Intstitute (§ 2), we discuss how inclusion has been embedded as a core value (§ 3) and is central to the Advisory Circle (§ 4). We use interview data to trace how each Institute’s organizing team approached how best to serve the blended audience (§ 5). We then explore the impacts that the Institute has had on individual participants and on communities through four in-depth participant interviews and one descriptive study (Yamada 2014) (§ 6). We conclude (§ 7) that each Institute was intentionally shaped to be inclusive of a blended audience, but note that blending audiences is always challenging. However, the Institute ethos of inclusion and collaboration, as mutually reinforcing dimensions of interaction, provided participants with a supportive environment in which to work through and navigate tensions, and to develop and model problem-solving skills. Overall, the Institute has reinforced calls for community-based research paradigms, and provides a biennial opportunity to try out innovative practices.