Research Methods in Language Attitudes

1. An introduction to language attitudes research Ruth Kircher and Lena Zipp; Part I. Analysis of the Societal Treatment of Language: 2. Discourse analysis of print media Olivia Walsh; 3. Content analysis of social media Mercedes Durham; 4. Discourse analysis of spoken interaction John Bellamy; 5. Analysis of communication accommodation Jakob Leimgruber; 6. Variable analysis James Hawkey; Part II. Direct Methods of Attitude Elicitation: 7. Semi-structured interviews Petros Karatsareas; 8. Focus groups Michael Hornsby; 9. Questionnaires to elicit quantitative data Ruth Kircher; 10. Questionnaires to elicit qualitative data Lena Zipp; 11. Perceptual dialectology Chris Montgomery; Part III. Indirect Methods of Attitude Elicitation: 12. The matched-guise technique Veronica Loureiro-Rodriguez and Elif Acar; 13. The verbal-guise technique Marko Dragojevic and Sean Goatley-Soan; 14. The theatre-audience method Tore Kristiansen; 15. Experimental methods to elicit language attitudes among children Jasmine M. DeJesus, Radhika Santhanagopalan, and Katherine D. Kinzler; 16. The Implicit Association Test paradigm Laura Rosseel; Part IV. Overarching Issues of Language Attitudes Research: 17. Researching language attitudes in multilingual communities Bernadette O'Rourke; 18. Researching language attitudes in signing communities Annelies Kusters, Maartje De Meulder, and Erin Moriarty; 19. Researching language attitudes based on historical data Anna D. Havinga and Andreas Krogull; 20. The use of priming in language attitudes research Abby Walker, Katie Drager, and Jennifer Hay; 21. Mixed-methods approaches to the study of language attitudes Ruth Kircher and James Hawkey.