Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism And Multilingualism 1st Edition by Li Wei, Melissa Moyer 1405179007 9781405179003

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ISBN 10: 1405179007

ISBN 13: 9781405179003

Author: Li Wei, Melissa G. Moyer

As globalization has increased awareness of the extent of language contact and linguistic diversity, questions concerning bilingualism and multilingualism have taken on an increasing importance from both practical and scholarly points of view. Written by leading experts and practitioners in the field, The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism:

• Highlights the interdisciplinary nature of research on bilingualism and multilingualism and offers a practical guide to the procedures and tools for collecting and analyzing data
• Specifically addresses methodological issues, discussing research topics, core concepts and approaches, and the methods and techniques available
• Links theory to method, and to data, and answers a real need for a know-how volume on bilingualism and multilingualism that deals with its methodology in a systematic and coherent way

Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism And Multilingualism 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Researching Bilingualism and Multilingualism

1 Research Perspectives on Bilingualism and Multilingualism

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Societal and Individual Bilingualism and Multilingualism

1.3 Research Perspectives

1.4 The Transdisciplinary Future

2 Research as Practice: Linking Theory, Method, and Data

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Data and Knowledge on Bilingualism and Multilingualism

2.3 Questions for Critical Thinking

2.4 Linking Research Questions, Theory, Method, and Data

2.5 A Summary of Research as an Ongoing Process

Part II: Procedures, Methods, and Tools

3 Types and Sources of Bilingual Data

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Census and Sample Surveys

3.3 Questionnaires

3.4 Observations

3.5 Matched-Guise Tests

3.6 Spontaneous and Semi-Spontaneous Conversations

3.7 Elicited Information in Experimental Settings

3.8 Written Sources: Books, Song Lyrics, and the Internet

3.9 Conclusion

4 Bilingual Speech Data: Criteria for Classification

4.1 Introduction

4.2 What is “Bilingual Data”?

4.3 Levels of Analysis within Bilingual Data

4.4 Types of Bilingual Data

4.5 From Borrowing to Code-Switching

4.6 Classifying and Analyzing Bilingual Speech

4.7 Grammatical Approaches to Analyzing CS

4.8 Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Approaches

4.9 The Pragmatic Study of CS

4.10 Conclusion

5 Selecting Individuals, Groups, and Sites

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The Importance of the Selection Process

5.3 The Researcher’s Identity in the Selection Process

5.4 A Focus on Individual Bilingualism

5.5 A Focus on the Group or Community

5.6 Ethical Considerations

6 Study Design: Cross-sectional, Longitudinal, Case, and Group

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Overview

6.3 Cross-Sectional Design

6.4 Longitudinal Design

6.5 A Comparison of Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Study Designs

6.6 Case Studies

6.7 Group Studies

6.8 Combination of Designs

6.9 Conclusion

7 Laboratory Designs and Paradigms: Words, Sounds, and Sentences

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Words

7.3 Sounds

7.4 Sentences

7.5 Summary

8 Imaging Technologies

8.1 Introduction

8.2 The Brain and Language Relationship

8.3 The “Electromagnetic” Approach

8.4 The “Hemodynamic” Approach

8.5 How to Build a Neuroimaging Experiment

8.6 An fMRI Study on Bilingualism

8.7 Final Remarks

9 Interviews and Questionnaires

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Interviews as Sources of Data on Language Contact

9.3 Questionnaires

9.4 Comparing and Contrasting Interviews and Questionnaires

10 Recording Audio and Video

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Why Record?

10.3 Preparing to Record

10.4 Recording in the Field

10.5 Post-Recording Data Manipulation

10.6 Conclusion

11 Transcription

11.1 Introduction

11.2 From Speech to Writing

11.3 Transcription: Practical Tips

11.4 The LIDES System

11.5 Organization, Structure, and Analytic Units in Transcription

11.6 Tagging Choices

11.7 Coding

11.8 Conclusions: Reliability and Transcription

12 Quantification and Statistics

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Experimental Approach

12.3 Corpus Analysis Approach

12.4 Individual Differences

12.5 Pitfalls in Selecting Research Questions

12.6 Conclusions

13 Data Banks and Corpora

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Bilingual Phenomena that can be Investigated in a Corpus

13.3 Building a Corpus

13.4 Possibilities for Analysis

14 Doing Ethnography

14.1 Why Do Ethnographies of Bilingualism?

14.2 What Reality? Whose Reality?

14.3 Bilingualism, Ideology, Difference, and Power

14.4 What Might an Ethnography of Bilingualism Look Like?

14.5 Bilingualism and School

14.6 Following Up

15 Social Network Analysis

15.1 Approaches to Social Networks

15.2 Applications of SNA in Language Research

15.3 SNA in Bilingualism and Multilingualism Research

15.4 SNA and Bilingual Acquisition

15.5 Conclusion

16 Conversation and Interactional Analysis

16.1 Introduction: Researching Bilingual Conversation

16.2 Blazing the Trail

16.3 Symbolic Approach

16.4 Sequential Approach

16.5 Identity-in-Interaction: Integrating the Two Approaches

16.6 Concluding Remarks

17 Critical Discourse Analysis

17.1 Introduction

17.2 Discourse

17.3 CDA as Theory

17.4 CDA as Method

17.5 Critical Analysis and Discourse of Multilingualism

17.6 Researching Multilingual Britain

18 Narrative Analysis

18.1 Introduction

18.2 Fictional narratives

18.3 Personal Narratives

18.4 Conclusion

19 Media Analysis

19.1 Introduction

19.2 Frameworks of Media Analysis

19.3 Media Analysis and the Contexts of “Global” Multilingual Subjects

19.4 Media Analysis and the Discourses of the Bilingual “Other”

19.5 Conclusions

Part III: Project Ideas, Dissemination, and Resources

20 Project Ideas

20.1 Introduction

20.2 Change

20.3 Migration

20.4 Conflict

20.5 Children

21 Disseminating Research: A Guide to Conference Presentation and Journal Publication

21.1 Disseminating Research

21.2 A Guide to Conference Presentation

21.3 A Guide to Journal Publication

22 Resources for Research on Bilingualism and Multilingualism

22.1 Journals

22.2 Book Series

22.3 Conferences

22.4 Research Tools

22.5 Websites, Electronic Mailing Lists, and Other Resources

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