ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses one of the main goals of this volume, which is to investigate the extent to which non-CL research methods can complement CL methods to enhance our understanding of linguistic processes and variation. We begin with a discussion of different ways of understanding methodological triangulation considering convergent and correlational types as well as independent, sequential and cyclical methods.
We then describe the strengths and limitations of using triangulation, based on a synthesis of the reflective conclusions of the nine earlier analysis chapters. We consider the extent to which the triangulation between the various CL and non-CL methods were successful and conclude this chapter by enumerating the contributions of this volume to several communities of scholars, including corpus linguists, psycholinguists, discourse analysts, descriptive linguists, and language researchers outside of mainstream linguistics. We will also reflect on the challenges and promise of methodological triangulation in the future of (corpus) linguistic research and research in the social sciences, more generally.
