Research Methods in Linguistics

"Covering topics such as developing research questions, corpus analysis and quantitative, qualitative and combined methods and designs, this book guides you through all the main issues, techniques and approaches to developing your research. Providing clear introductions to key concepts and discussions, it takes you step-by-step through topics like how to conduct your own focus groups and interviews, how to build case studies and how to make sense of your data. Guiding you towards the research methods most appropriate to your work, and explaining them in detail, this is the only book you need in linguistic research methods"--

Lia Litosseliti is Associate Professor in Linguistics at City, University of London, UK, and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. Her research interests are in the areas of gender and language, discourse analysis and research methodologies.

List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Part I: Issues 1. Research Questions in Linguistics, Jane Sunderland (Lancaster University, UK) 2. Ethics in Linguistic Research, Christine Mallinson (University of Maryland, USA) 3. Transcription in Linguistics, Lorenza Mondada (University of Basel, Switzerland) 4. Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed, or Holistic Research? Combining Methods in Linguistic Research, Jo Angouri (University of Warwick, UK) 5. Micro/Macro-Linguistic Considerations: Evaluating Discourse-Analytic Approaches to Text and Talk, Judith Baxter and Lia Litosseliti (University of London, UK) Part II: Quantitative Perspectives 6. Quantitative Methods: Concepts, Frameworks and Issues, Sebastian M. Rasinger (Anglia Rusin University, UK) 7. Organizing and Processing Your Data: The Nuts and Bolts of Quantitative Analyses, Erez Levon (University of Bern, Switzerland) 8. Corpus Methods in Linguistics, Paul Baker (Lancaster University, UK) Part III: Qualitative Perspectives 9. Interviews and Focus Groups in Social Science and Linguistics Research: a Critical Review, Nigel Edley (Nottingham Trent University, UK), Lia Litosseliti (University of London, UK) and Becky Moss 10. Linguistic Ethnography, Karin Tusting (Lancaster University, UK) 11. Digital Discourse Analysis, Camilla Vásquez (University of South Florida, USA) and Yaqian Jiang (Middle Tennessee State University, USA) 12. Multimodality: A Guide for Linguists, Jeff Bezemer (University College London, UK) and Carey Jewitt (University College London, UK) 13. Case Study Research in Applied Linguistics, Patricia A. Duff (University of British Columbia, Canada) Index