Doing sociolinguistics : a practical guide to data collection and analysis / Miriam Meyerhoff, Erik Schleef and Laurel MacKenzie
- Author:
- Meyerhoff, Miriam
- Published:
- London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Schleef, Erik, 1971-
MacKenzie, Laurel
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Finding a topic -- Formulating a research topic -- Motivating your research topic -- Drawing up a research plan -- Exercises -- References -- Further reading -- 2.Sample design and the envelope of variation -- What exactly am I looking at? -- Defining variables and variants -- Defining the envelope of variation -- How much data do 1 need? -- Exercises -- References -- Further reading -- 3.Ethics and archiving -- Informed consent when recording -- Useful resources you can draw on -- Archiving and long-term storage -- Exercises -- References -- Further reading -- 4.Sampling techniques and gaining access to speakers -- Gaining access to speakers and entering the community -- Samples and sampling techniques -- Exercises -- References -- Further reading -- 5.Interviews as a source of data -- Why interview? -- What is an interview? -- Reading aloud -- Exercises -- References -- Further reading -- 6.Naturally occurring, spontaneous speech as a source of data -- Recording spontaneous speech -- Ethnographic research -- Exercises -- References -- Further reading -- 7.Corpora as a source of data -- What is a corpus? -- Why would I want to use a corpus? -- How do I use a corpus? -- Exercises -- References -- Further reading -- 8.Written surveys and questionnaires as a source of data -- Questionnaires in sociolinguistics -- Limitations and opportunities -- Developing questionnaire items -- Questionnaire structure -- Testing, administering and processing questionnaires -- Exercises -- References -- Further reading -- 9.Studying perceptions and attitudes -- Direct methods -- Indirect methods -- Collecting pre-existing speech or text -- Exercises -- References -- Further reading -- 10.Transcription -- End goals: What are you transcribing for? -- Dodging 'blowback': How your transcript will be read -- Exercises -- References -- Further reading -- 11.Identifying, coding and summarising your data -- The hunting of the variable -- Code once and code a lot -- Getting summary statistics -- Exercises -- References -- Further reading -- 12.Analysing your data -- Preliminaries -- Terminology -- Summarising a categorical dependent variable -- Summarising a continuous dependent variable -- Statistical significance -- Testing a categorical dependent variable for statistical significance -- Testing a continuous dependent variable for statistical significance -- Exercises -- References -- Further reading -- 13.Presenting your data -- What should a graph do? -- Clarity -- Honesty -- Eliminating redundancy -- Now that you know what not to do -- Exercises -- References -- Further reading -- 14.Analysing multiple independent variables -- Cross-tabulating two independent variables to check for interactions -- Multivariate analysis -- Exercises -- References -- Further reading -- 15.Mixing qualitative and quantitative analysis -- A word on terminology -- Combining quantitative and qualitative: Learning by example -- Exercises -- References -- Further reading -- 16.Writing up your research -- What is a research paper? -- Introduction -- Literature review -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion and conclusion -- Reference list and appendix -- Revise, edit, choose a title and write an abstract -- Exercises -- References -- Further reading.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9780415698214 (hbk)
0415698219 (hbk)
9780415698207 (pbk)
0415698200 (pbk) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased with funds from the Penn State Alumni Association, Greater Phoenix, Arizona Chapter Libraries Endowment; 2015
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