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Linguistics Final Year Topic: Intergenerational Transmission of Indigenous Plant Names

This Linguistics final year project explores how adults across generations recognise and explain indigenous plant names. It uses consented adult naming tasks using locally verified non-sensitive plant images to develop an evidence-led account of language form, meaning or use.

Why choose this project topic?

The focus on how adults across generations recognise and explain indigenous plant names provides a specific linguistic problem that can be investigated with a bounded dataset. Speaker-checked evidence and explicit analysis decisions make the proposal suitable for discussion with a language specialist.

What can consented adult naming tasks using locally verified non-sensitive plant images establish about how adults across generations recognise and explain indigenous plant names?

Name the precise variety or participant setting, agree the sample and analysis tools, and verify the feasibility of studying how adults across generations recognise and explain indigenous plant names.

Proposed project objectives

  1. 01Define an analytical account of how adults across generations recognise and explain indigenous plant names.
  2. 02Document relevant examples using consented adult naming tasks using locally verified non-sensitive plant images.
  3. 03Document names, variants and knowledge sources with community review and botanical identification support.

A suggested research approach

Confirm access to consented adult naming tasks using locally verified non-sensitive plant images and the competence needed for transcription or translation. Document names, variants and knowledge sources with community review and botanical identification support. Pilot the tasks, record uncertain judgments, and obtain required ethics approval and informed consent before involving speakers.

What you will need

  • Authorised access to consented adult naming tasks using locally verified non-sensitive plant images
  • A transcription or coding protocol for how adults across generations recognise and explain indigenous plant names
  • Appropriate language competence, secure storage and participant consent arrangements

Keep your project scope clear

Do not disclose restricted knowledge or present local plant uses as proven medical treatments.

Linguistics project chapter outline

Use this outline as a starting point. You can edit the chapter titles to match your department’s format during setup.

  1. Chapter 1Introduction
  2. Chapter 2Literature Review
  3. Chapter 3Research Methodology
  4. Chapter 4Data Presentation, Analysis and Discussion of Findings
  5. Chapter 5Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations

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