ABSTRACT
Projects in Linguistics and Language Studies, Third Edition, is your essential guide when embarking on a research project in linguistics or English language.
It is clearly divided into the subject areas that most appeal to you as a student: psycholinguistics; first- and second-language acquisition; structure and meaning; sociolinguistics; language and gender; accents and dialects; and the history of English. New chapters on researching computer-mediated communication (CMC) and on preparing and delivering oral presentations are also included.
It offers practical advice on
- identifying a topic
- making background reading more effective
- planning and designing a project
- collecting and analysing data
- writing up and presenting findings.
With over 350 project ideas that you can use directly or adapt to suit different contexts and interests, and with chapters on how to reference effectively and how to avoid plagiarism, this third edition of Projects in Linguistics and Language Studies is a reference guide that you will use again and again during your studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Introduction: starting on the right foot
part |136 pages
Areas of Study and Project Ideas
chapter |13 pages
Psycholinguistics
chapter |15 pages
First-language acquisition and development
chapter |16 pages
Second-language acquisition
chapter |15 pages
Structure and meaning
chapter |16 pages
Style in spoken and written texts
chapter |9 pages
Sociolinguistics
chapter |10 pages
Language and gender
chapter |13 pages
Accents and dialects of English
chapter |11 pages
History of English
chapter |16 pages
Computer-mediated communication
part |36 pages
Techniques for Collecting Data
chapter |4 pages
Audio- and video-recorded data
chapter |7 pages
Experiments
chapter |15 pages
Questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups
chapter |5 pages
Observation and case studies
chapter |3 pages
Ethical considerations in research projects
part |44 pages
Tools for Data Analysis
chapter |6 pages
Transcribing speech phonetically and phonemically
chapter |10 pages
Transcribing speech orthographically
chapter |9 pages
Using computers to study texts
chapter |17 pages
Statistics and your project
part |46 pages
Presenting Your Work