Research Methods in Sociolinguistics: A Practical Guide

Research Methods in Sociolinguistics: A Practical Guide
	Copyright
	Contents
	Notes on Contributors
	Acknowledgments
	Symbols for Vowels Used in This Volume
	Articulatory Position of Vowels Used in This Volume
	Introduction
		How the Book Is Organized
		Summary of the Content of the Different Chapters
	1 A Historical Assessment of Research Questions in Sociolinguistics
		Introduction
		Implementation
		Cross-references
		Conclusion
	Part I Types of Data and Methods of Data Collection
		2 Sociolinguistic Interviews
			Introduction
			Developing Research Questions
			Methods of Data Collection and Analysis
			Entering the Community
			Observing, Interviewing, and Recording
			Equipment
			Components of the Sociolinguistic Interview
			Records and Writing Up
		3 Written Surveys and Questionnaires in Sociolinguistics
			Introduction
			Developing a Questionnaire
			Writing Questions/Items
			Structuring the Questionnaire
			Testing the Questionnaire
			Administering the Questionnaire
			Processing and Evaluating the Questionnaire
		4 Experimental Methods in Sociolinguistics
			The Initial Stages
			Matched-Guise Technique: What Social Information Do Listeners Attribute to a Speaker Based Only on Hearing Their Voice?
			Identification Tasks: Can Expectations about a Speaker Affect How a Listener Will Hear Their Speech?
			After Data Collection
			Ethics in Experimental Work
		5 Computer-mediated Communication and Linguistic Landscapes
			Introduction
			Data Collection in Computer-mediated Communication Research
			Data Collection in Linguistic Landscapes Research
			A Note on Research Ethics
	Part II Methods of Analysis
		Focusing on Features of Language from a Sociolinguistic Perspective
			6 Sociohistorical Analysis
				The Past Is a Foreign Country?
				Approaching the Past
				Implementation
				Analyzing Change
			7 Corpus Linguistics in Sociolinguistics
				Introduction
				Corpus Linguistics
				Building a Corpus
				Research Questions
				Comparing the Speech of Younger and Older Adults
			8 Phonetic Analysis in Sociolinguistics
				Introduction
				Implementation
			9 Phonological Considerations in Sociophonetics
				Introduction
				What Is the Difference between “Internal” and “External” Factors?
				The Phonological Variable
				Implementation: How Do Phonological Concerns Affect Sociolinguistic Variation?
			10 Morphosyntactic Analysis in Sociolinguistics
				Introduction
				Implementation
			11 Vocabulary Analysis in Sociolinguistic Research
				Introduction
				Lexicography
			12 Doing Discourse Analysis in Sociolinguistics
				Introduction
				Doing Discourse Analysis
				Developing Research Questions
				Collecting the Data
				Transcribing the Data
				Analyzing the Data
				Qualitative Analysis
			13 Words and Numbers: Statistical Analysis in Sociolinguistics
				Introduction
				Quantitative Approaches to Generalization
				Statistical Inference: The Significance of Significance
				Statistical Modeling
				Conclusion
		Focusing on Aspects of Sociocultural Context in Analyzing Language
			14 Anthropological Analysis in Sociolinguistics
				Introduction
				Ethnographic Data Collection and Its Implications for Analysis
				Regularities and Variation
				The Complexity of Context
				Language Ideologies and Indexicality
				Analytical Challenges
				A Data Example
				Analysis
			15 Conversation Analysis in Sociolinguistics
				Introduction
				The Research Process
				Interactional Consequences of Different Action Constructions: Some Illustrations
				Another Illustration of the Sequential (Interactional) Consequences of Different Action Designs
			16 Geographical Dialectology
				The Dialectologist in Space
				Traditional Dialect Geography
				Geolinguistic Dialectology
				Reviewing the Methodological Process: Weighing up and Compromising
			17 Speech Communities, Social Networks, and Communities of Practice
				Introduction
				Speech Communities
				Social Networks
				Communities of Practice
			18 Analyzing Sociolinguistic Variation in Multilingual Contexts
				Introduction
				Central Concepts in Multilingual Research
				Data Collection for Multilingual Communities
				Multilingualism and Code-switching
				Language Endangerment in Multilingual Contexts
				Conclusion
			19 Social Context, Style, and Identity in Sociolinguistics
				What Is Style?
				Styling Identities
				The Macro and the Micro
				Choosing a Context and Data for Analysis
			20 Researching Children’s Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence
				Introduction
				Background and Motivation for Research on Children ’ s Sociolinguistic Development
				Some Methods for Investigating Children’s Sociolinguistic Competence
				Conclusion
	Index