Projects in linguistics and language studies: a practical guide to researching language
London
Hodder Education
c2012
x, 315 p.; 25 cm.
Previous ed.: published as Projects in linguistics. 2006
Includes bibliographical references )p. ]277[-299( and index
Alison Wray and Aileen Bloomer
Introduction: starting on the right foot -- Psycholinguistics -- First-language acquisition and development -- Second-language acquisition -- Structure and meaning -- Style in spoken and written texts -- Sociolinguistics -- Language and gender -- Accents and dialects of English -- History of English -- Computer-mediated communication -- Audio- and video-recorded data -- Experiments -- Questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups -- Observation and case studies -- Ethical considerations in research projects -- Transcribing speech phonetically and phonemically -- Transcribing speech orthographically -- Using computers to study texts -- Statistics and your project -- How to reference -- Plagiarism and how to avoid it -- Handy hints on writing good academic English -- Hints on giving a good oral presentation