Scientific Research and MA Seminar - Linguistics

The seminar focusses on:
- research work in linguistics (types, theoretical framework, and methods of research);
- theoretical models and their role in understanding and explaining linguistic phenomena;
- theoretical framework, methods, results;
- research project (identifying the research problem(s) and goals; critical review of the relevant literature; the choice of theoretical and methodological framework; qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches);
- data collection and analysis (corpora, sampling, general strategies and methods of statistical analysis, etc);
- interpretation and assessment of research results, discussion.

Biber, D., S. Conrad S. &R. Reppen. 1998. Corpus Linguistics. Investigation of Language Structure and Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. COBISS.SI-ID - 18596445
Haegeman, Liliane. 2010. Thinking syntactically. A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis. Oxford, UK/ Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell. COBISS.SI-ID - 45308258
Schofield, P. 1994. Quantifying Language. A Researcher's and Teacher's Guide to Gathering Language Data and Reducing It to Figures. Clevedon: Mutilingual Matters. COBISS.SI-ID - 6779234
Swales, J.M. & C.B. Feak. 1999. Academic Writing for Graduate Students. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. COBISS.SI-ID - 13676642
Študent oz. študentka izbere literaturo glede na svoj raziskovalni projekt.