Skip to main content
Taylor & Francis Group Logo
Advanced Search

Click here to search books using title name,author name and keywords.

  • Login
  • Hi, User  
    • Your Account
    • Logout
Advanced Search

Click here to search books using title name,author name and keywords.

Breadcrumbs Section. Click here to navigate to respective pages.

Chapter

Naturally occurring, spontaneous speech as a source of data

Chapter

Naturally occurring, spontaneous speech as a source of data

DOI link for Naturally occurring, spontaneous speech as a source of data

Naturally occurring, spontaneous speech as a source of data book

Naturally occurring, spontaneous speech as a source of data

DOI link for Naturally occurring, spontaneous speech as a source of data

Naturally occurring, spontaneous speech as a source of data book

ByMiriam Meyerhoff, Erik Schleef, Laurel MacKenzie
BookDoing Sociolinguistics

Click here to navigate to parent product.

Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
Imprint Routledge
Pages 9
eBook ISBN 9781315723167

ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses how to summarise, graph and test data for significance when focusing on one independent variable at a time. This is the simplest way to begin people data analysis, but most sociolinguistic studies are of course going to be examining the effects of more than one factor on the dependent variable. Multivariate analysis is a statistical test that can tease apart independent variables when they are tied up with one another. Multivariate analysis is also known as regression: specifically, logistic regression in the case of a categorical dependent variable and linear regression in the case of a continuous one. The chapter focuses on estimated probabilities that are based on multivariate analysis: they represent the rate, at which the different age groups under study would use, body pronouns with or without postnominal modifiers, all other linguistic and social factors being equal. Sociolinguists have traditionally performed multivariate analysis using software called Goldvarb and Varbrul.

T&F logoTaylor & Francis Group logo
  • Policies
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Cookie Policy
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Cookie Policy
  • Journals
    • Taylor & Francis Online
    • CogentOA
    • Taylor & Francis Online
    • CogentOA
  • Corporate
    • Taylor & Francis Group
    • Taylor & Francis Group
    • Taylor & Francis Group
    • Taylor & Francis Group
  • Help & Contact
    • Students/Researchers
    • Librarians/Institutions
    • Students/Researchers
    • Librarians/Institutions
  • Connect with us

Connect with us

Registered in England & Wales No. 3099067
5 Howick Place | London | SW1P 1WG © 2021 Informa UK Limited