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Synopsis
An in-depth introduction to all research methods in linguistics, this is the ideal textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Synopsis
An in-depth introduction to all research methods in linguistics, this is the ideal textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Research Methods are important skills for students of linguistics to learn prior to undertaking research projects at either undergraduate or postgraduate level. Students need to learn how to develop research methods appropriate for their chosen study, and how to record, transcribe, code and analyse the data collected. This comprehensive introduction to research methods in linguistics guides the student through these areas, offering advice at a theoretical and practical level. The book covers formal, computational, quantitative and qualitative research methods in detail, and each chapter is written by an academic renowned in the field. Topics covered include: using corpora, questionnaire design, computer-assisted content analysis, interview methods, observation, fieldwork in linguistics, and statistic analysis. Providing an in-depth introduction to all research methods in linguistics, this is the ideal textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students encountering linguistic data for the first time. Research Methods in Linguistics is a new series from Continuum providing a series of introductions to the quantitative and qualitative research methods needed by undergraduate and postgraduate students. The centre of the series is Research Methods in Linguistics edited by Lia Litosseliti, which provides a comprehensive overview of all the research methods needed by linguistics students. Each book in the series takes one of the research methods described in the general introduction and expands upon this in a book length study.
Table of Contents
Part I: Issues 1. ‘Research Questions in Linguistics' (Jane Sunderland, Lancaster University, UK)2. ‘Quantitative, Qualitative or Both? Combining Methods in Linguistic Research', Jo Angouri (University of the West of England, UK)
Part II: Quantitative and Corpus research methods 3. ‘Quantitative Methods: Concepts, Frameworks and Issues', Dr Sebastian Rasinger (Anglia Ruskin University, UK) 4. ‘Organising and Processing your Data: the Nuts and Bolts of Quantitative Analyses', Erez Levon (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) 5. ‘Corpus Methods in Linguistics', Paul Baker (Lancaster University, UK)
Part III: Qualitative research methods 6. ‘Discourse Analytic Approaches to Text and Talk', Judith Baxter, (Aston University, Birmingham, UK) 7. ‘Linguistic Ethnography', Angela Creese (University of Birmingham, UK) 8. ‘Interviews and Focus Groups', Nigel Edley (Nottingham Trent University, UK) and Lia Litosseliti (City University, London, UK)9. ‘Multimodal Analysis: Key Issues', Jeff Bezemer and Carey Jewitt, (Institute of Education, UK) 10. ‘Narrative Analysis in Linguistic Research', Julio C. Gimenez, (Middlesex University, UK)BibliographyIndex