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1 online resource (213 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface and user guide; Acknowledgements; PART I: Data collection; 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 I need?; Exercises; References; Further reading; 3 Ethics and archiving; Informed consent when recording |
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Useful resources you can draw onArchiving 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 |
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7 Corpora as a source of dataWhat 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; PART II: Data analysis |
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10 TranscriptionEnd 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 |
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Testing a continuous dependent variable for statistical significanceExercises; 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 |
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Exercises |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schleef, Erik
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MacKenzie, Laurel
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| ISBN |
9781315723167 |
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1315723166 |
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