Projects in Linguistics
A Practical Guide to Researching Language
Published on 27. March 1998
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-340-70002-0 (ISBN)
Description
A companion for students undertaking a piece of independent research for the first time. It introduces the most commonly used tools and techniques of research and offers practical advice on how to choose a research topic, how to collect data, how to analyze it and how to write up the results. Sections on the main areas of linguistics discuss problems of research that are specific to the topic, and there are appendices on plagiarism, referencing, writing academic English, and the use of corpora, amongst others. The work seeks to bridge the gap between what research methods textbooks cover and what students need to know in order to conduct research successfully at undergraduate level.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 162 mm
Width: 241 mm
Weight
643 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-70002-0 (9780340700020)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Part 1 Introduction: choosing an area; what am I expected to do?; where do I start?; using resources; being a researcher. Part 2 Writing a project in...: sociolinguistics; psycholinguistics; conversation analysis; language acquisition and development; pragmatics; accent and dialect studies; phonology; historical linguistics; grammar and meaning; stylistics; teaching and learning; multilingualism; language and gender. Part 3 Tools: qualitative techniques; quantitative techniques; transcribing data techniques; using computers. Part 4 Bringing it all together: relationship between sub-disciplines; presentation.