Projects in Linguistics and Language Studies: A Practical Guide to Researching Language

ISBN-13: 9781138439658 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Alison Wray

Opis

Projects in Linguistics and Language Studies, Third Edition, provides practical guidance for undergraduate students on how to plan, prepare and present a research project in linguistics or English language studies.

Recenzje

Provides excellent guidance and material for those intending to research aspects of language. This [second edition] is a good book and, while written for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the field of language, it should serve as an important starting block for professionals wanting to become practitioner-researchers in this field.
Child Language Teaching and Therapy

Excellent resource for any project-based course
Professor J Coates, University of Surrey

Spis treści

      Preface to the third edition
      Acknowledgements
      International Phonetic Alphabet
Chapter 1: Introduction: starting on the right foot
PART I: AREAS OF STUDY AND PROJECT IDEAS
Chapter 2: Psycholinguistics
Chapter 3: First-language acquisition and development
Chapter 4: Second-language acquisition
Chapter 5: Structure and meaning
Chapter 6: Style in spoken and written texts
Chapter 7: Sociolinguistics
Chapter 8: Language and gender
Chapter 9: Accents and dialects of English
Chapter 10: History of English
Chapter 11: Computer-mediated communication
PART II: TECHNIQUES FOR COLLECTING DATA
Chapter 12: Audio- and video-recorded data
Chapter 13: Experiments
Chapter 14: Questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups
Chapter 15: Observation and case studies
Chapter 16: Ethical considerations in research projects
PART III: TOOLS FOR DATA ANALYSIS
Chapter 17: Transcribing speech phonetically and phonemically
Chapter 18: Transcribing speech orthographically
Chapter 19: Using computers to study texts
Chapter 20: Statistics and your project
PART IV: PRESENTING YOUR WORK
Chapter 21: How to reference
Chapter 22: Plagiarism and how to avoid it
Chapter 23: Handy hints on writing good academic English
Chapter 24: Hints on giving a good oral presentation
      References
      Index

O autorze

Alison Wray, Research Professor, Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University.

Aileen Bloomer, formerly Principal Lecturer in Language Studies and Linguistics, York St John University College.