Collecting Data Flashcards
1
Q
Labov’s sociolinguistic interview
A
Wordlists (minimal pairs)
Reading passage
Interview
Talk with friends
2
Q
Limitations of SI
A
- speakers may have more that one vernacular style
- speakers may be more formal in an interview setting
3
Q
Vernacular
A
Style in which minimum attention is paid to speech
4
Q
The Observer’s Paradox
A
Want to observe the speech that people use when they aren’t being observed
5
Q
Advantage of questionnaires/self report
A
Cheshire & Edwards (1991) Survey of British Dialect Grammar
Self report useful in eliciting attitudes
6
Q
Milroy & Gordon (2003) benefits of participant observation
A
- lots of high quality data
- more ways of explaining finishings by looking beyond macro-social categories
7
Q
Limitations of ethnography
A
- time consuming
- inefficient
- limited generalisability
