ELF Research Methods and Approaches to Data and Analyses: Theoretical and Methodological Underpinnings

✍ Scribed by Kumiko Murata

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 301
• Series: Routledge Research in Language Education
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book systematically explores and discusses English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research methods frequently deployed by ELF researchers in analysing their data.

It mainly covers three different approaches: corpus-based, both written and spoken, conversation analytic and narrative approaches. In addition to exploring these different approaches to ELF data, the volume also introduces case studies that utilise them in analysing data in both academic and workplace settings, which facilitates not only the understanding of the ways in which research is conducted but also its findings. Furthermore, the book discusses theoretical underpinnings of ELF research and its recent development in its first part. It is comprehensive both in understanding theory and exploring research methods which can be deployed in conducting ELF research.

The book, therefore, will be of great interest and use for both ELF researchers and educators as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students who are about to embark on their ELF and ELF-related research, and also to those who are new to the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 ELF research methods and different approaches to data and analyses: introduction
Part I ELF research: some theoretical underpinnings and development
2 Research perspectives on ELF: linguistic usage and communicative use
3 Researching ELF communication: focus on high-stakes encounters
4 ELF and translanguaging: covert and overt resources in a transnational workplace
Part II Spoken and written corpora in ELF research
5 Good texts in non-standard English: ELF and academic writing
6 Exploring diachronic changes in research articles from an ELF perspective: a small corpus study
7 Tracing the emergence of situational multilingual practices in a BELF meeting: micro-diachronic analysis and implications of corpus design
8 Asian Corpus of English (ACE): features and applications
9 Interpersonal formulaic sequences in ELF academic lectures: methodological challenges
Part III Conversation analytic approaches to ELF interactions
10 Applying conversation analysis to ELF interaction data
11 Analysing multilingual/lingua franca interactions using conversation analysis: notes on transcription and representability
12 Accounting for asymmetries in ELF interactions: three disparate Asian settings
Part IV Narrative approaches in ELF research: exploring attitudes towards ELF
13 ‘Place-reflexivity’ as an imaginary kaleidoscope to explore methodological issues in ELF research
14 Understanding the ELF phenomenon through narrative inquiry: a diary study on identities of Japanese ELF users
15 Rigour in ELF language attitude research: an example of a conversational interview study
Index