Week
Topic
January 20
Introduction
Our Syllabus and Schedule
Our Books
Our Overall Plan Why a Methods
course? What is Methodology?
Why should it matter?
Where should we begin? What
are we looking for?
January 27
February 4
Quantitative Methods and Design
February 11
February 18
Corpora: What are they? What
are they used for? What is their
general approach to language?
February 25
Qualitative Methods and Design 1
March 4
Qualitative Methods and Design 2
March 11
Qualitative Methods and Design 3
March 18
Qualitative Methods and Design 4
March 25
Qualitative Methods and Design 5
April 1
April 8 SPRING BREAK
April 15
Ethics
Work on Proposals and Portfolios
Field Methods—an Overview
Reading (other readings to be
added)
Syllabus
Course Requirements
Looking over readings—
Introduction to the dual approach
Labov 1972 (on Moodle)
Litosseliti: Introduction and
Chapters 1 and 2
Assignment to be thinking about
or submitting
Complete in class and
Submit: Student information sheet
Begin glossary collection (10
terms/words each week)
Develop a glossary and notes for
Labov piece—bring for discussion
Begin keeping the glossary
Begin question formulation
Litosseliti: Chapter 3
Submit three potential research
Quantitative Methods
questions that you have crafted
Litosseliti: Chapter 4
Don’t forget the cumulative
The Data
glossary
Litosseliti: Chapter 5
Submit either one of the three, or
Compass paper: “What is Corpus a new (subject to approval, with
Linguistics?” (2009) (a method? a reasons for the change) question
field?)
to use.
UCSB paper
Litosseliti Chapter 6
Discourse Analytic Approaches
Litosseliti Chapter 7
Submit first draft of annotated
Linguistic Ethnography
bibliography
Litosseliti Chapter 8
Interviews and Focus Groups
Litosseliti Chapter 9
Multimodal Analysis
Litosseliti Chapter 10
Submit preliminary proposal
drafts
“Field Methods” (Blackwell
Handbook of Linguistics)
Keren Rice, Ken Hale talk (LSA
YouTube site
April 29
May 6
May 13 FINAL EXAM DATE
Presentations of Proposals
Presentations of Proposals
Overview and Discussion
Submission of Portfolios
Return of Portfolios
the annotated portfolio will include
glossary (cumulative)
initial questions (at least three)
final selected question
annotated bibliography draft (at least three references)
Corpus exercise (only tentative)
A developed proposal—This proposal (500 to 1000 words) would include:
the question or area, and why it matters;
the overarching conceptual framework and hypothesis,;
the general methodological type (qualitative, quantitative, mixed/integrated) and why that/those;
the proposed design; the more specific methods you would use to engage and work through the project; and
the outcomes, relevance, or application you foresee.
the final edition of the references with selected annotations (at least 5)
A reflective piece (what you personally are likely to take away from this encounter with “methodology”)