Introduction / Lia Litosseliti -- Part I. Issues. Research questions in linguistics / Jane Sunderland -- Quantitative, qualitative o r both? Combining methods in linguistic research / Jo Angouri -- Part II. Quantitative an d corpus research methods. Quantitative methods: concepts, frameworks an d issues / Sebastian M. Rasinger -- Organizing an d processing your data: the nuts an d bolts of quantitative analyses / Erez Levon -- Corpus methods in linguistics / Paul Baker -- Part III. Qualitative research methods. Discourse-analytic approaches to text an d talk / Judith Baxter -- Linguistic ethnography / Angela Creese -- Contemplating interviews an d focus groups / Nigel Edley an d Lia Litosseliti -- Multimodal analysis: key issues / Jeff Bezemer an d Carey Jewitt -- Narrative analysis in linguistic research / Julio C. Gimenez.