Research Methods in Linguistics: Second Edition

369 Pages·2018·7.363 MB·English

by  Lia Litosseliti (editor)

Research
Methods in
Linguistics
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Second edition
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Contents
Listof Figures ix
Listof Tables x
Noteson Contributors xii
Introducing Research Methods in Linguistics
Lia Litosseliti
1
Part One Issues
11
1 Research Questions in Linguistics
Jane Sunderland
13
2 Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed or Holistic
Research? Combining Methods in Linguistic
Research
Jo Angouri
35
3 Ethics in Linguistic Research
Christine Mallinson
57
4 Transcription in Linguistics
Lorenza Mondada
85
Part Two Quantitative perspectives
115
5 Quantitative Methods: Concepts,
Frameworks and Issues
Sebastian M. Rasinger
117
viii Contents
6 Organizing and Processing Your Data: The
Nuts and Bolts of Quantitative Analyses
Erez Levon
139
7 Corpus Methods in Linguistics
Paul Baker
167
Part Three Qualitative perspectives
193
8 Critical Perspectives on Using Interviews and
Focus Groups
Nigel Edley and Lia Litosseliti
195
9 Discourse-Analytic Approaches to Text and
Talk
Judith Baxter
227
10 Linguistic Ethnography
Fiona Copland and Angela Creese
259
11 Multimodality: A Guide for Linguists
Jeff Bezemer and Carey Jewitt
281
12 Case Study Research in Applied Linguistics
Patricia A. Duff
305
Glossary ofKeyTerms 331
Index 339
List of Figures
2.1 Common representation of
research designs (from Johnson and
Onwuegbuzie, 2004: 22)
41
4.1 Transcript: Luc explaining how he
manages the garden
105
4.2 Transcript: Luc begins to point
105
4.3 Transcript: Luc points, the co-participants
begin to respond
105
4.4 Transcript: All look at the pointed-at
object
105
6.1 Decision tree for statistical tests
147
11.1 Daan’s Facebook post
294
List of Tables
5.1 Experimental pre-/post-test set-up with
three groups
128
5.2 Fictive data matrix
133
5.3 Data matrix
133
6.1 Null article use with non-specific indefinite
NPs (adapted from Sharma, 2005: 551)
149
6.2 Expected values for null article use of non-
specific indefinite NPs
150
6.3 Chi-square significance values
152
6.4 Responses to the question ‘AAE is a form
of English’ (adapted from Blake and Cutler,
2003: 176)
153
6.5 Expected values for the question ‘AAE is a
form of English’
154
6.6 Ratio of /u/ to /i/ F2s (adapted from Fought,
1999: 14)
156
6.7 Hypothetical result for listeners’ ratings of
‘Intelligence’ in Lambert et al. (1960)
159
7.1 Top Ten word frequencies in LOB and FLOB
178
7.2 Some keywords in LOB and FLOB when
compared against each other
180
7.3 Sample concordance of girl (LOB Corpus)
182
7.4 Strongest twenty collocates of girl and boy in
the British National Corpus using log-log
184
12.1 Sample case studies on Study Abroad (SA)
313