Projects in Linguistics, Second Edition
A Practical Guide to Researching Language
2nd Edition
Published on 27. March 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-340-65210-7 (ISBN)
Description
Shortlisted for the 1999 BAAL Book prize.
Giving an overview of major themes in the areas of linguistics most commonly chosen by students, and introducing the tools and techniques of research, this book provides practical advice on how to choose a research topic, how to collect data and analyse it, and how to write up the results. Incorporating over 250 project ideas, and covering plagiarism, referencing, the use of corpora, phonetic and orthographic transcription, and tips on writing good English, 'Projects in Linguistics' is a treasure-trove of information.
Giving an overview of major themes in the areas of linguistics most commonly chosen by students, and introducing the tools and techniques of research, this book provides practical advice on how to choose a research topic, how to collect data and analyse it, and how to write up the results. Incorporating over 250 project ideas, and covering plagiarism, referencing, the use of corpora, phonetic and orthographic transcription, and tips on writing good English, 'Projects in Linguistics' is a treasure-trove of information.
Reviews / Votes
Provides excellent guidance and material for those intending to research aspects of language. This is a good book and, while written for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the field of language, it should serve as an important starting block for professionals wanting to become practitioner-researchers in this field.Child Language Teaching and Therapy
Excellent resource for any project-based course
Professor J Coates, University of Surrey
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Edition
2nd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
ISBN-13
978-0-340-65210-7 (9780340652107)
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Content
Preface
Introduction
Part 1 Projects on
Psycholinguistics
First language acquisition and development
Conversation analysis
Second language acquisition
Style in texts
Sociolinguistics
Accents and dialects of English
Structure and meaning
Historical linguistics
Language and gender
Part 2 Techniques
Tape recording data
Experiments
Questionnaires
Interviews
Observation and case studies
Part 3 Tools
Transcribing speech phonetically and phonemically
Transcribing speech orthographically
Using computers to study text
Data Protection Act
How to reference
Plagiarism and how to avoid it
Statistics
Using an abstracting journal
Handy hints on writing good academic English
References.
Introduction
Part 1 Projects on
Psycholinguistics
First language acquisition and development
Conversation analysis
Second language acquisition
Style in texts
Sociolinguistics
Accents and dialects of English
Structure and meaning
Historical linguistics
Language and gender
Part 2 Techniques
Tape recording data
Experiments
Questionnaires
Interviews
Observation and case studies
Part 3 Tools
Transcribing speech phonetically and phonemically
Transcribing speech orthographically
Using computers to study text
Data Protection Act
How to reference
Plagiarism and how to avoid it
Statistics
Using an abstracting journal
Handy hints on writing good academic English
References.