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Quantifying language : a researcher's and teacher's guide to gathering language data and reducing it to figures / Phil Scholfield.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Multilingual matters (Series)Publication details: Clevedon, Avon : Multilingual Matters, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 298 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585171785
  • 9780585171784
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Quantifying language.DDC classification:
  • 401/.51 20
LOC classification:
  • P128.F67 S36 1995eb
Other classification:
  • 17.46
  • ES 200
  • ES 250
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. I. Setting the Scene: What is Quantified and Why? 1. Basic Terms. What do People Quantify? 2. Why do People Quantify Language? The Teaching/Therapy Reason. 3. Why do People Quantify Language? The Research Reason -- pt. II. Data Gathering for Quantification: Kinds of Instrument and Technique. 4. Overview of Four General Kinds of Approach to Data Gathering for Quantification. 5. Data for Quantification: Fully Naturalistic. 6. Data for Quantification: Quasi-naturalistic Interaction. 7. Data for Quantification: Opinion. 8. Data for Quantification: Manipulation. 9. Maximising Naturalness in the Data-gathering Phase of Language Quantification. 10. The 'Referencing' Dimension of Quantification -- pt. III. Data Analysis in Quantification: Scoring, Counting and Scale Types. 11. Overview of Scale Types: Simple Sources of Interval Scales. 12. Scoring on Interval Scales: Counts of Various Sorts. 13. Scoring on Interval Scales: Totals from Uniform Sets of Dichotomous Items.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) and index.

pt. I. Setting the Scene: What is Quantified and Why? 1. Basic Terms. What do People Quantify? 2. Why do People Quantify Language? The Teaching/Therapy Reason. 3. Why do People Quantify Language? The Research Reason -- pt. II. Data Gathering for Quantification: Kinds of Instrument and Technique. 4. Overview of Four General Kinds of Approach to Data Gathering for Quantification. 5. Data for Quantification: Fully Naturalistic. 6. Data for Quantification: Quasi-naturalistic Interaction. 7. Data for Quantification: Opinion. 8. Data for Quantification: Manipulation. 9. Maximising Naturalness in the Data-gathering Phase of Language Quantification. 10. The 'Referencing' Dimension of Quantification -- pt. III. Data Analysis in Quantification: Scoring, Counting and Scale Types. 11. Overview of Scale Types: Simple Sources of Interval Scales. 12. Scoring on Interval Scales: Counts of Various Sorts. 13. Scoring on Interval Scales: Totals from Uniform Sets of Dichotomous Items.

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