Course
Course 7.5 credits • SPVM06
The course is a compulsory component of the Master of Arts programme in Language and Linguistics. The course is only offered within the programme.
The course provides an overview of research methods used in Linguistics and specialised study of at least one method. The student’s ability to select the appropriate method for a specific research issue is strongly emphasised and trained in the course. Furthermore, the course deals with research ethics, problem formulation, hypothesis construction, sampling, deductive and inductive methods, qualitative and quantitative methods, classification, transcription and coding. The methods examined in the course include experimental methods, interview methods, language elicitation, field studies, participant observation, survey methods, statistical methods, discourse analysis, philological methods and corpus methods. The course consists of lectures, practical exercises and laboratory work.
Programme affiliation: Part of Master's Programme in Language and Linguistics
Study period:
spring semester 2023
Type of studies:
part time, 50 %,
day
Study period:
2023-01-16 – 2023-03-21
Language of instruction:
English
Teachers:
Jordan Zlatev