Sulthana Sayyidi/ 2201416110

Research in Linguistics

1.
 brainstorm for ideas
 choose a topic that will enable you to read and understand the literature
 ensure that the topic is manageable and that material is available
 make a list of key words
 be flexible
 define your topic as a focused research question
 research and read more about your topic
 formulate a thesis statement
2. The characteristics of a good research question, assessed in the context of the intended
study design, are that it be feasible, interesting, novel, ethical, and relevant
3. Step 1 – Organizing and preparing the data for analysis.
Step 2 – Analyzing the data.
Step 3 – Interpreting results
4. Discourse analysis is a research method for studying written or spoken language in
relation to its social context. It aims to understand how language is used in real life
situations. When you do discourse analysis, you might focus on: The purposes and
effects of different types of language
5. The main advantage of discourse analysis in comparison to other
qualitative methods (and, above all, methods that work with interviews) is that authentic
conversation is re- corded and analysed. This enables researchers to reconstruct and
describe the actual communicative processes.