Research methods in linguistics / edited by Lia Litosseliti.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Issues ; Research questions in linguistics / Jane Sunderland -- Ethics in linguistic research / Christine Mallinson -- Transcription in linguistics / Lorenza Mondada -- Quantitative, qualitative, mixed, or holistic research? Combining methods in linguistic research / Jo Angouri -- Micro/macro-linguistic considerations: evaluating discourse-analytic approaches to text and talk / Judith Baxter and Lia Litosseliti -- Part II. Quantitative perspectives ; Quantitative methods: concepts, frameworks and issues / Sebastian M. Rasinger -- Organizing and processing your data: the nuts and bolts of quantitative analyses / Erez Levon -- Corpus methods in linguistics / Paul Baker -- Part III. Qualitative perspectives ; Interviews and focus groups in social science and linguistics research: a critical review / Nigel Edley, Lia Litosseliti and Becky Moss -- Linguistic ethnography / Karin Tusting -- Digital discourse analysis / Camilla Vásquez and Yaqian Jiang -- Multimodality: a guide for linguists / Jeff Bezemer and Carey Jewitt -- Case study research in applied linguistics / Patricia A. Duff.

"Covering topics such as developing research questions, corpus analysis and quantitative, qualitative and combined methods and designs, this book guides you through all the main issues, techniques and approaches to developing your research. Providing clear introductions to key concepts and discussions, it takes you step-by-step through topics like how to conduct your own focus groups and interviews, how to build case studies and how to make sense of your data. Guiding you towards the research methods most appropriate to your work, and explaining them in detail, this is the only book you need in linguistic research methods"-- Provided by publisher.