Research Methods in Linguistics

Lia Litosseliti is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Associate Dean for Internationalisation at City, University of London. Her research interests are in the areas of gender and language, discourse analysis and research methodologies. She is the author of Using Focus Groups in Research (2003) and Gender and Language: Theory and Practice (2006); editor of Research Methods in Linguistics (2010/ 2018); and co-editor of Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis (2002, with Jane Sunderland), Gender and Language Research Methodologies (2008, with Kate Harrington, Helen Sauntson, and Jane Sunderland) and Gender and Language in African Contexts (2013, with Lilian Atanga, Sibonile Ellece and Jane Sunderland). Lia was President of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) and Associate Editor of Gender and Language, and has acted as reviewer for a range of funding bodies and journals.

The book does a wonderful job by using many examples with much detail ... [making] it easier for discourse analysts to follow the text and understand the capabilities of the different types of methods, both quantitative and qualitative ... Research Methods in Linguistics provides a useful high-level overview of research methods for linguistic study for a graduate-level seminar-style research method course.

• Table of contentsIntroducing Research Methods in Linguistics (Lia Litosseliti, City, University of London, UK)Part I: Issues1. Research Questions in Linguistics (Jane Sunderland, Lancaster University, UK)2. Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed, or Holistic research? Combining Methods in Linguistic Research (Jo Angouri, University of Warwick, UK and Aalto University, Finland)3. Ethics in Linguistic Research (Christine Mallinson, University of Maryland, Baltimore Country, USA)4. Transcription in Linguistics (Lorenza Mondada, University of Basel, Switzerland and University of Helsinki, Finland) Part II: Quantitative Perspectives5. Quantitative Methods: Concepts, Frameworks and Issues (Sebastian M. Rasinger, Anglia Ruskin University, UK)6. Organizing and Processing Your Data: The Nuts and Bolts of Quantitative Analyses (Erez Levon, Queen Mary University of London, UK)7. Corpus Methods in Linguistics (Paul Baker, University of Lancaster, UK)Part III: Qualitative Perspectives8. Critical Perspectives on Using Interviews and Focus Groups (Nigel Edley, Nottingham Trent University, UK and Lia Litosseliti, City, University of London, UK)9. Discourse-analytic approaches to text and talk (Judith Baxter, Aston University UK)10. Linguistic Ethnography (Angela Creese, University of Birmingham, UK and Fiona Copland, University of Stirling, UK)11. Multimodality: A guide for linguists (Jeff Bezemer, UCL Institute of Education, UK and Carey Jewitt, University College London, UK)12. Case Study Research in Applied Linguistics (Patricia A. Duff, University of British Columbia, Canada)