LING 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Diaphoneme, Participant Observation
24 Apr 2017
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Who you gather data from will have a crucial impact on what your results may be. Judgement sample based on research questions they have. The act of observation may affect the responses and skew your data. Division of data is arbitrary and has to consider the social factors you are interested in. Markers of social status in western society: T test: testing differences between two means. Making sure the participant is feeling comfortable. Deception as to the target of the research. Asking them to talk about themselves, stories etc. Making sure they are comfortable and not altering their speech by virtue of observation. Observation in an environment where the targeted word(s) are likely to come about naturally. Deceptive/active elicitation of speci c words (e. g. tasker ave? no - tasker street) Passive observation vs active elicitation of the targeted variable.
