Research Methods in Sociolinguistics: A Practical Guide (Guides to Research Methods in Language and Linguistics) - Softcover

 
9780470673614: Research Methods in Sociolinguistics: A Practical Guide (Guides to Research Methods in Language and Linguistics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0470673613 ISBN 13: 9780470673614
Verlag: *Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

This single-volume guide equips students of sociolinguistics with a full set of methodological tools including data collection and analysis techniques, explained in clear and accessible terms by leading experts. It features project suggestions, troubleshooting tips, and data assessment across diverse languages.

  • Explores an array of anthropological and scientific methods that cover the full spectrum of contemporary sociolinguistics, from the study of style and discourse analysis to the study of phonetics
  • Details the types of data available, and explains collection methods ranging from sociolinguistic interviews to linguistic landscapes
  • Provides comprehensive coverage of data analysis, subdivided into segments on linguistic and socio-cultural techniques, and linked to numerous languages
  • Includes useful summaries, seasoned advice and troubleshooting tips, ideas for research projects, and a full directory of supplementary reading

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Janet Holmes holds a personal Chair in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her sociolinguistics teaching focuses on workplace discourse, New Zealand English, and language and gender. She is Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace (LWP) project and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Her many publications include The Handbook of Language and Gender (edited with M. Meyerhoff, Wiley-Blackwell, 2003), Leadership, Discourse and Ethnicity (with M. Marra and B. Vine, 2011), and An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Fourth Edition (2013).

Kirk Hazen is Professor of Linguistics and director of the West Virginia Dialect Project at West Virginia University. He is the author of Dialect Change and Maintenance on the Outer Banks (with W. Wolfram and N. Schilling-Estes, 1998), Identity and Ethnicity in the Rural South: A Sociolinguistic View through Past and Present Be (2000), and An Introduction to Language (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).

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This practical guide to research methods in sociolinguistics equips readers with a full range of techniques to apply in their own academic work. A team of twenty leading contributors provides detailed procedural instructions on an array of anthropological and scientific methods that cover the full spectrum of contemporary sociolinguistics, from the study of style and discourse analysis to the study of phonetics. The first of the book’s two sections details the types of data available, and explains collection methods ranging from sociolinguistic interviews to linguistic landscapes. The second part focuses on data analysis across a number of languages, subdivided into segments on linguistic and sociocultural techniques.

Comprehensive coverage is combined with useful summaries, seasoned advice and troubleshooting tips, ideas for research projects, and a full directory of supplementary reading, for those undertaking research in this specialist field.

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This practical guide to research methods in sociolinguistics equips readers with a full range of techniques to apply in their own academic work. A team of twenty leading contributors provides detailed procedural instructions on an array of anthropological and scientific methods that cover the full spectrum of contemporary sociolinguistics, from the study of style and discourse analysis to the study of phonetics. The first of the book’s two sections details the types of data available, and explains collection methods ranging from sociolinguistic interviews to linguistic landscapes. The second part focuses on data analysis across a number of languages, subdivided into segments on linguistic and sociocultural techniques.

Comprehensive coverage is combined with useful summaries, seasoned advice and troubleshooting tips, ideas for research projects, and a full directory of supplementary reading, for those undertaking research in this specialist field.

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Verlag
*Wiley-Blackwell
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0470673613
ISBN 13 
9780470673614
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
350
Herausgeber
Holmes Janet, Hazen Kirk
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