Projects in Linguistics A Practical Guide to Researching Language
by Wray, Alison; Trott, Kate; Bloomer, Aileen; Reay, Shirley; Butler, ChrisFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-06-25
Publisher(s): Hodder Education Publishers
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Summary
This is an invaluable 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 towrite up the results. The authors incorporate over 250 project ideas and cover plagiarism, referencing, the use of corpora, phonetic and orthographic transcription, and writing good English.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| 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 | |
| Techniques | |
| Tape recording data | |
| Experiments | |
| Questionnaires | |
| Interviews | |
| Observation and case studies | |
| 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 | |
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