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Projects in linguistics : a practical guide to researching language /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wray, Alison
Otros Autores: Trott, Kate, 1963-, Bloomer, Aileen, 1947-
Formato: Libro
Publicado: London ; New York : Arnold, 1998.
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : starting on the right foot
  • pt. 1. Areas of study and project ideas. Psycholinguistics
  • First-language acquisition and development
  • Conversation analysis
  • Second-language acquisition
  • Style in texts
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Accents and dialects of English
  • Structure and meaning
  • Historical linguistics
  • Language and gender
  • pt. 2. Techniques for collecting data. Tape-recording data
  • Experiments
  • Questionnaires
  • Interviews
  • Observation and case studies
  • pt. 3. Tools for data analysis and project writing. Transcribing speech phonetically and phonemically
  • Transcribing speech orthographically
  • Using computers to study texts
  • The Data Protection Act
  • How to reference
  • Plagiarism and how to avoid it
  • Statistics
  • Using an abstracting journal
  • Handy hints on writing good academic English.