ISBN:
9781107347427
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (328 pages)
Series Statement:
Key Topics in Sociolinguistics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Schilling-Estes, Natalie Sociolinguistic fieldwork
DDC:
306.44072/1
Keywords:
Sociolinguistics ; Fieldwork
;
Sociolinguistics ; Methodology
;
Electronic books
;
Soziolinguistik
;
Feldforschung
;
Methode
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Soziolinguistik
;
Methodologie
Abstract:
This invaluable textbook will give you the skills and knowledge required for carrying out research projects in 'the field'.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Foregrounding Field Methods -- 1.2 Sociolinguistic Field Methods: A Brief History And Overview -- 1.3 Enriching Quantitative Sociolinguistics With Qualitative Data / Methods -- 1.4 How This Book Is Organized -- Suggested readings -- 2 Designing the study -- 2.1 Selecting The Population: What Is A "Speech Community"? -- 2.2 Sampling The Population -- 2.2.1 Random sampling -- 2.2.2 Proportionate stratified random sampling -- 2.2.3 Judgment sampling -- 2.3 Stratifying The Sample -- 2.3.1 Problematizing social categories: Social class, ethnicity, gender, and age -- 2.3.2 Practical considerations for problematic categories and categorizations -- 2.4 Investigating Language Change In Real Time -- 2.5 Summary -- Suggested readings -- 3 Data-collection methods -- 3.1 Sociolinguistic Surveys -- 3.1.1 Method of administration: Face-to-face or long distance -- 3.1.2 Types of survey questions / elicitation frames -- Eliciting forms and features -- Eliciting information on structural limitations of forms -- Judgments of same vs. different -- 3.1.3 Limitations of elicitation tasks -- 3.1.4 The rapid and anonymous survey -- 3.1.5 Eliciting information on listener perception -- 3.2 THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC INTERVIEW -- 3.2.1 Situating the sociolinguistic interview -- 3.2.2 Structuring the sociolinguistic interview -- 3.2.3 Stylistic variation in the sociolinguistic interview -- 3.2.4 Casual vs. careful speech in the conversational interview -- 3.2.5 Criticisms of the sociolinguistic interview -- 3.2.6 Modifications of the sociolinguistic interview -- 3.3 ETHNOGRAPHY / PARTICIPANT-OBSERVATION -- 3.3.1 The interrelation of ethnography and sociolinguistics: A long and continuing tradition -- 3.3.2 Theoretical considerations: Balancing objectivity and relativity.
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Designing the study; 3. Data collection methods; 4. Designing research on style; 5. In the field: finding contacts, finding a place; 6. Recording and record keeping; 7. Giving back to the community.
Note:
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