Projects in Linguistics: A Practical Guide to Researching Language

Alison Wray, Kate Trott and Aileen Bloomer's guide for undergraduates designing independent linguistic research — topic choice, ethics, corpora, transcription and write-up (ISBN 0340652101).

The text walks the final-year linguistics undergraduate through the working stages of an independent research project: identifying a researchable question within phonetics and phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition or applied linguistics; the ethical and consent considerations of fieldwork with human participants; corpus and elicitation methods; transcription conventions; and the conventions of writing up a long-form linguistics dissertation.

Alison Wray is Emeritus Professor in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, best known for research on formulaic language, psycholinguistics and communication in dementia care. The volume sat in the firm's applied-linguistics list alongside Schmitt's Introduction to Applied Linguistics and the journal Language Testing.