Focus Groups are often under-used as a valuable tool for research. This practical and extremely well-written guide offers advice on: * planning and organising focus groups * what types of questions to use * the limitations and advantages of using these groups as research methods * collecting the data at group sessions * how to analyse the data produced
Focus Groups are often under-used as a valuable tool for research. This practical and extremely well-written guide offers advice on: * planning...
The first book that draws together the main current methodological approaches to the study of language and gender. Approaches include Sociolinguistics, Conversation analysis, Corpus linguistics, Critical discourse analysis, Feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis, Discursive psychology and Queer theory.
The first book that draws together the main current methodological approaches to the study of language and gender. Approaches include Sociolinguistics...
The book introduces both theoretical and applied perspectives, identifying and explaining the relevant frameworks and drawing on a range of activities/examples of how gender is constructed in discourse. The book is divided into three parts. Part I covers the historical background to the study of gender and language, moving on through past theoretical approaches to a discussion of current debates in the field, with particular emphasis on the role of discourse analysis. In Part II, gender is examined in context with chapters focussing on gender and language in education, the mass media...
The book introduces both theoretical and applied perspectives, identifying and explaining the relevant frameworks and drawing on a range of activities...
