Projects in Linguistics: A Practical Guide to Researching Language - Hardcover

Wray, Alison; Etc.; Bloomer, Aileen; Trott, Kate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340700025 ISBN 13: 9780340700020

Publisher: Hodder Arnold, 1998

Synopsis

A companion for students undertaking a piece of independent research for the first time. It introduces the most commonly used tools and techniques of research and offers practical advice on how to choose a research topic, how to collect data, how to analyze it and how to write up the results. Sections on the main areas of linguistics discuss problems of research that are specific to the topic, and there are appendices on plagiarism, referencing, writing academic English, and the use of corpora, amongst others. The work seeks to bridge the gap between what research methods textbooks cover and what students need to know in order to conduct research successfully at undergraduate level.

About this title

Review

Provides excellent guidance and material for those intending to research aspects of language. This is a good book and, while written for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the field of language, it should serve as an important starting block for professionals wanting to become practitioner-researchers in this field.
Child Language Teaching and Therapy

Excellent resource for any project-based course
Professor J Coates, University of Surrey

About the Author

Alison Wray is Reseaerch Professor at the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University, UK

Aileen Bloomer, Principal Lecturer in Language Studies and Linguistics, York St John University College, UK

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder Arnold
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340700025
• ISBN 13: 9780340700020
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320