| Description |
xv, 303 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
International Phonetic Alphabet -- 1. Introduction: starting on the right foot -- 2. Psycholinguistics -- 3. First-language acquisition and development -- 4. Conversation analysis -- 5. Second-language acquisition -- 6. Style in texts -- 7. Sociolinguistics -- 8. Accents and dialects of English -- 9. Structure and meaning -- 10. Historical linguistics -- 11. Language and gender -- 12. Tape-recording data -- 13. Experiments -- 14. Questionnaires -- 15. Interviews -- 16. Observation and case studies -- 17. Transcribing speech phonetically and phonemically -- 18. Transcribing speech orthographically -- 19. Using computers to study texts -- 20. The Data Protection Act -- 21. How to reference -- 22. Plagiarism and how to avoid it -- 23. Statistics -- 24. Using an abstracting journal -- 25. Handy hints on writing good academic English |
| Summary |
Projects in Linguistics has been designed to assist students undertaking a piece of independent research for the first time. It introduces the most commonly used tools and techniques, and offers practical advice on how to research a topic |
| Analysis |
Linguistics -- Research -- Methodology |
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Linguistics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [274]-291) and index |
| Subject |
Linguistics -- Research -- Methodology.
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| Author |
Bloomer, Aileen, 1947-
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Trott, Kate, 1963-
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| LC no. |
98014557 |
| ISBN |
0340652101 (pb) |
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0340700025 (hb) |
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