Monica Heller, Sari Pietikäinen, Joan Pujolar

Critical Sociolinguistic Research Methods (eBook, PDF)

Studying Language Issues That Matter

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is a timely guide on conducting concrete ethnographic and discourse analytic research projects. Adopting a critical perspective focusing on the role of language in the construction of social difference and social inequality, the authors walk the reader through five key moments in the life of a research project.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317577584
• Artikelnr.: 50001192

Autorenporträt

Monica Heller is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she is also a Past President of the American Anthropological Association.

Sari Pietikäinen is Professor of Discourse Studies in the Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She is also Director of the Jyväskylä Discourse Hub.

Joan Pujolar is Associate Professor in the Arts and Humanities Department at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain. He is also Director of the Research Group on Language, Culture and Identity in the Global World and President of the Catalan Society of Sociolinguistics.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
0.1 Why Language Matters Now
0.2 Research as Socially Constructed Knowledge
0.3 Research as Experience and as Conversation
0.4 The Research Process: Sequencing, Recursivity and Rhizome
0.5 The Authors as Your Guides and Conversational Partners
0.6 Summary
1 First Key Moment: Formulating Your Research Question
1.1 Research Questions as (Hi)Stories and Conversations
1.2 Different Ways to Get to Your Research Questions
1.3 Reflexivity, Ethics and Research Questions
1.4 Summary
2 Second Key Moment: Designing Your Research
2.1 What Is Research Design?
2.2 Research Design as Projected Work Plan
2.3 Where to Start? With Whom?
2.4 Approaches and Evidence
2.5 Data Recording and Documentation
2.6 Ethics and Politics
2.7 Research Design as Discursive Genre
2.8 Summary
3 Third Key Moment: Generating your Data
3.1 Fieldwork: Producing Data
3.2 Observing: Finding Out What People Do
3.3 Eliciting: Finding Out What People Say
3.4 Material Traces: Other Voices
3.5 Summary
4 Fourth Key Moment: Analyzing Your Data
4.1 What Is Analysis? What Does It Feel Like to Do It?
4.2 Mapping (and Categorizing)
4.3 Tracing
4.4 Connecting
4.5 Claiming
4.6 Analysis as Ethical and Political Conversation
4.7 Pulling It Together
4.8 Summary
5 Fifth Key Moment: Making Your Story
5.1 Writing the Story the Research Tells
5.2 Researchers as Knowledge Producers
5.3 Genre Expectations
5.4 Knowledge Mobilization
5.5 Summary
6 Shop Floor
6.1 Introduction: What Do We Mean by Shop Floor?
6.2 Moment 2: Designing Your Research
6.3 Moment 3: Generating Your Data
6.4 Moment 4: Analyzing Your Data
6.5 Moment 5: Making Your Story
Epilogue
References
Further Reading
Index